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発音

動詞

long live

1. Used in the subjunctive mood: may he, she, they, or it live for a long time; may it prosper.

   Long live the King!

反意語

• down with
• death to

同意語

派生語

• the king is dead, long live the king
• X is dead, long live Y (snowclone)

参照

• Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik (1972), “Formulae”, in A Grammar of Contemporary English, New York, N.Y.; London: Seminar Press, →ISBN, chapter 7 (The simple sentence), section 7.85–89 (Formulaic utterances, greetings, etc), pages 411–412: “Apart from such cases, we must notice sentences which contain fossilized elements no longer productively used in present-day English. The old optative subjunctive survives, combined with inversion, in […] Long live anarchy! (archaic except when jocular)”
• Jeremy J. Smith (1999), “Grammar and lexicon”, in Essentials of Early English: An Introductory Text-Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Descriptive material), chapter 2 (Describing language), page 42:

  Earlier stages of English used special subjunctive forms of the verb rather than auxiliary verbs, as in this last example. Remnants of these forms still appear in Present-Day English, though their use is now considered by many people to be over-proper or formulaic: […] Long live the Queen.

• Melanie (30 May 2017), “Advanced English Grammar: The Subjunctive Mood”, in English Teacher Melanie‎, archived from the original on 6 June 2017: “The subjunctive is also used in some fixed expressions. […] Long live the King”
• Alexandra Rongione (17 April 2024), “Subjunctive Mood | Examples & Definition”, in QuillBot‎, Redwood City, Calif.: Course Hero, archived from the original on 6 August 2024: “The subjunctive mood has become relatively rare in modern English, but it is still used in certain contexts and expressions, such as “Long live [noun],” “God help/save us,” and “Bless you.””

アナグラム

• livelong, loveling