vie

Borrowed from Old French envier.

• IPA^(key): /vaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

vie (third-person singular simple present vies, present participle vying, simple past and past participle vied)

1. (intransitive) To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

   Her suitors were all vying for her attention.

   • Addison

     In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as […] to vie with the best of their family.

2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

     But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.

3. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
   • Shakespeare

     She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.

   • Milton

     Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.

   • Herbert

     And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.

4. To stake; to wager.

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5. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

• battle
• compete
• oppose

• concede
• reconcile

vie (plural vies)

1. (obsolete) A contest.

• -ive, I've, VEI

From Latin vita.

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯/, [ˈʋie̞̯]
• Hyphenation: vie

vie

1. Third-person singular indicative present form of viedä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯ˣ/, [ˈʋie̞̯(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: vie

vie

1. Indicative present connegative form of viedä.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of viedä.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of viedä.

• vei

• IPA^(key): /vi/

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From Old French vie, from Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā.

vie f (countable and uncountable, plural vies)

1. life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
2. life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
3. biography, life
4. life, lifeforms

   L’apparition de la vie sur Terre

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5. cost of living

   La vie a drôlement augmenté depuis quelque temps : il ne me reste plus grand-chose quand j’ai payé tous les impôts.

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• en vie
• à vie
• demi-vie

• Antillean Creole: vi
• Guianese Creole: lavi
• Haitian Creole: lavi
• Louisiana Creole French: vi
• Seychellois Creole: lavi

Ultimately from Latin via. Compare voie.

vie f (plural vies)

1. (Switzerland, Jura) way, path (road, railway, etc)

• vionnet (Switzerland, rare)

• “vie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈviː.e/

vie f

1. plural of via

• evi

viē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vieō

vie

1. Lenited form of mie.

• Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

From Old Norse vígja

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past vigde or vidde or via or viet, past participle vigd or vidd or via or viet)

1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
2. wed two persons into marriage

• innvie
• vievann

• “vie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin vīta.

vie f (oblique plural vies, nominative singular vie, nominative plural vies)

1. life

   c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

   Mout avoit changiee sa vie

   Much had it changed his life

• Middle French: vie
  • French: vie
    • Antillean Creole: vi
    • Guianese Creole: lavi
    • Haitian Creole: lavi
    • Louisiana Creole French: vi
    • Seychellois Creole: lavi
  • Norman: vie (Guernésiais)
• Walloon: veye, vèie

From Latin vita.

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.e/

From Latin vīnea.

vie f (plural vii)

1. vineyard
2. vine

• (vine): viță

• viță de vie

• vier

Forms of the adjective viu.

vie

1. nominative feminine singular of viu
2. accusative feminine singular of viu