LIVE OUT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does live out mean? 

• LIVE OUT (verb)
  The verb LIVE OUT has 2 senses:

1. live out one's life; live to the end

2. work in a house where one does not live

  Familiarity information: LIVE OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Live out one's life; live to the end

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "live out" is one way to...):

endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive (continue to live and avoid dying)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Work in a house where one does not live

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

live out; sleep out

Context example:

our cook lives out; he can easily commute from his home

Hypernyms (to "live out" is one way to...):

commute (travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

live in (live in the house where one works)

 Context examples 

But I live out of the world, and am often astonished at what I hear.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The married officers live out of barracks, and the Colonel has during all this time occupied a villa called Lachine, about half a mile from the north camp.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One might have supposed him a child of the wilderness, long accustomed to live out of the confines of civilization, and about to return to his native wilds.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I stole down to my own mansion, entered it at night, and, leaving all that was dear to me behind, I crept like a rat behind the wainscot, to live out the remainder of my weary life in solitude and misery.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)