vie

vie

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Vietnamese.

Aphetic form of envy.

• IPA^(key): /vaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

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

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

   Synonyms: compete, battle, contest

   Antonyms: concede; give in, give up; reconcile

   Hyponym: spar

   Near-synonym: oppose

   Her suitors were all vying for her attention.

   • 1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 109; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

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

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 33:

     The Major Stations category is keenly contested, with 24 other large city centre termini and major rail hub stations all vying for recognition. As ever, the NRA's expert panel of judges visited each as unannounced mystery shoppers.

2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     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.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

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

   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

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

   • 1633, George Herbert, The Sacrifice:

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

4. To stake; to wager.
   • 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):

     Out, thou camelion harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyæna

   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Nature wants stuff
     To vie strange forms with fancy

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

vie (plural vies)

1. (obsolete) A contest.

• -ive, I've

From Latin vita.

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past viede, past participle viet)

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

• indvie
• vielse
• vievand

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯/, [ˈʋie̞̯]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(key): vie
• Hyphenation^(key): vie

vie

1. third-person singular present indicative of viedä

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

vie

1. inflection of viedä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• vei

• IPA^(key): /vi/

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• Homophones: vies, vis, vit

Inherited from Old French vie, from older Old French viḍe, from Vulgar Latin vītam, 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 ― the appearance of life on Earth

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.

   The cost of living has really been going up lately: I don't have much left once I've paid all my taxes.

• Antillean Creole: vi
• Guianese Creole: lavi
• Haitian Creole: lavi
• Louisiana Creole: 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.e/
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: vì‧e

vie f

1. plural of via

• -evi, 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 French vie, from Latin vita.

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

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
• vielse
• vievann

• “vie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

vie (present tense vier, past tense vigde, supine vigd or vigt, past participle vigd, present participle viande, imperative vi)

1. alternative form of via

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈʋi̯ɛː/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈviː/

vie

1. third-person singular present indicative of věděti

From Latin vīta.

vie oblique singular, 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: vi
    • Seychellois Creole: lavi
  • Norman: vie (Guernésiais)
• Walloon: veye, vèie

From Latin vita.

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.e/

Inherited from Latin vīnea.

vie f (plural vii)

1. vineyard
2. vine

   Synonym: viță

• viță de vie

• vier

Forms of the adjective viu.

vie

1. indefinite nominative/accusative feminine singular of viu (“living”)

a vie (third-person singular present vie, past participle vis, third-person subjunctive vie) 3rd conjugation (obsolete)

1. alternative form of via (“to live”)

• “vie”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

vie

1. third-person singular present of vedieť