Meaning of LIVING
| Pronunciation: | | 'living
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- [n] the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
- [n] people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
- [n] the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
- [n] the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
- [adj] (intensifier) "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
- [adj] having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue"; "living plants and animals"
- [adj] still in active use; "a living language"
- [adj] still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
- [adj] true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
- [adj] pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
- [adj] dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination; "living quarters"; "tree-living animals"
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| | Synonyms: | | absolute, alive(p), aliveness, animation, bread and butter, extant, keep, life, life, live, livelihood, realistic, support, surviving, sustenance |
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| | Antonyms: | | dead | | |
| | See Also: | | amenities, being, beingness, comforts, conveniences, creature comforts, endurance, eternal life, existence, experience, life eternal, maintenance, meal ticket, people, resource, skin, subsistence, survival | |
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| | Definition: | | \Liv"ing\, n.
1. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life;
existence. ``Health and living.'' --Shak.
2. Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living;
earnest living. `` A vicious living.'' --Chaucer.
3. Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
She can spin for her living. --Shak.
He divided unto them his living. --Luke xv. 12.
4. Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living
comfortably.
There is no living without trusting somebody or
other in some cases. --L' Estrange.
5. The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge
which a minister receives. [Eng.]
He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a
living --Macaulay.
{Livng room}, the room most used by the family.
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