• (RP) IPA: /ˈlɪvə/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈlɪvɚ/

liver

1. (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.

   Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.

2. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.

   I'd like some goose liver pate.

   You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.

   • 1993, Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies, ISBN 978-1-4165-9314-0, page 222:

     "I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver."

3. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.

    

• French: foie
• German: Leber
• Italian: fegato
• Portuguese: fígado
• Russian: пе́чень
• Spanish: hígado

• French: foie
• German: Leber
• Italian: fegato
• Portuguese: fígado
• Russian: пе́чень
• Spanish: hígado

• Italian: fegato
• Spanish: hígado, rojo hígado

liver (not comparable)

1. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
   • 2006, Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain & Ireland, ISBN 0-543-96651-8, page 298:

     His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.

• IPA: /ˈlɪvə(ɹ)/

liver (plural livers)

1. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     Ephori of Sparta, hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 3, member 7:

     a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man […].

   • Try if life be worth the liver's care.

   • 2014, Walter Raubicheck, Anya Morlan, Christianity and the Detective Story, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (ISBN 9781443865418)

     A great lover of the faith, a great defender of the faith, a great lover of life, great liver of life, great defender of life. And yet he plotted and planned over fifty murders, and carried each of one them out—if only on paper, and if only for our pleasure.

• IPA: /ˈlaɪvə(ɹ)/

1. comparative form of live

   Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.

• IPA: /ˈlaɪvə(ɹ)/

liver

1. (rare) From or pertaining to Liverpool.

• Scouse
• Liverpudlian