Viva Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary (2024)

vēvə, -vä

interjection

Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).

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verb

Long live (someone or something specified)!

Webster's New World

(intransitive, dated) To cheer or applaud.

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To subject to an examination of this kind.

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noun

A university examination with spoken questions and answers; oral examination.

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pronoun

A region of Manhattanville, Harlem, New York City.

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Origin of Viva

  • Italian Spanish (long) live both from Latin vīvat third person sing. present subjunctive of vīvere to live gwei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Shortened from viva voce, Latin for “live voice"

    From Wiktionary

  • Abbreviation of Viaduct Valley

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian

    From Wiktionary

Viva Sentence Examples

  • The most singular, and probably the loftiest, lake in the Alps is the ever-frozen tarn that forms the summit of the Roccia Viva (11,976 ft.) in the Eastern Graians.

  • Fortunately, Anneka is also a committed vegetarian, ardent Viva!

  • All students will be required to attend a viva during the second semester.

  • This is called the actual energy of the motion of the bbdy, and is half the quantity which in some treatises is called vis viva.

  • There was a flag on every house, crackers going off, drums beating, singing and crying " Viva Pacheco " .

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