Definition of "liver" in English

noun

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.

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

4. (obsolete chemistry) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.

   • He gave his horse some liver of antimony.

adjective

1. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).

noun

1. (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).

adjective

1. comparative form of live: more live

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