liver
Plurallivers
Plurallivers
- 1The organ of an animal such as a cow or chicken, cooked and eaten as food.
We had liver and onions for dinner last night.
Many people do not like the strong taste of liver.
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- 2A large organ in the body that stores nutrients, removes harmful substances, and makes bile to help digest food.
Like a factory and a cleaning station working together inside your body.
The doctor said her liver was perfectly healthy.
Drinking too much alcohol can damage your liver.
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- 3A dark brown color with a hint of red and gray.
Like the dark brown of cooked meat.
He chose liver for the dining room walls.
The dog's coat was almost liver in the dim light.
- 4Having a dark brown color with some red and gray in it.
The dog had a liver coat with white patches.
They picked liver tiles for the bathroom floor.
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- 5USLY-vur/ˈlaɪvɚ/UKLY-vuh/ˈlaɪvə/Comparative form of live. Rare: people usually say more live.
Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.
Here, liver means more live, more real and lifelike.Note
- 6A person who lives their life in a certain way.
She was always a careful liver, saving money for the future.
Try if life be worth the liver's care.
1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”Here, liver means a person who lives, the one living that life.Note
- 7A person who lives in a certain place.
As a city liver, he loved the noise and the crowds.
One, John Powle, a Liver on Sasquehanna River.
1747, Col. Rec. Pennsylv., VHere, Liver means a person who lives in a certain place.Similardweller, inhabitant, resident, denizen
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- 8A person who is alive, one of the living.
No liver among them could recall a colder winter.
When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings.
1592, Alb. Eng., WarnerHere, Liuers means living people, those still alive.Similarsurvivor
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- 9Certain chemicals, especially sulfides, once thought to look like the color of liver.
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Origins
From Old English lifer, the word for the liver. It came from an old Germanic word and is related to German Leber and Dutch lever.
From live plus the ending -er, meaning someone who lives.
From the adjective live plus the ending -er.