interjection
- long live; up with (a specified person or thing)
1590s (in vive le roi), from French, literally “long live ______;” French equivalent of viva (q.v.). Jocular phrase vive la diffĂ©rence in reference to the difference between men and women is recorded from 1963. Also in vive la bagatelle, literally “long live nonsense,” denoting a carefree attitude to life.