1. Continue to live and avoid dying
   "These superstitions live on in the backwaters of America";
   - survive, last, live, go, endure, hold up, hold out
    
2. Survive or subsist using (something) as sustenance
   "The students lived on ramen noodles during college"

Derived forms: lives on, lived on, living on

Type of: continue, go along, go on, keep, proceed