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Meaning of 'living' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Living [ n.]
- The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.
- Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.
- Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
- Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
- The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.
2 . Living [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
- of Live

Meaning of 'living' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . living [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the financial means whereby one lives
Example in sentence:
  • each child was expected to pay for their keep;
  • he applied to the state for support;
  • he could no longer earn his own livelihood
Meaning (2):
- the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
Example in sentence:
  • he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
Meaning (3):
- the condition of living or the state of being alive
Example in sentence:
  • life depends on many chemical and physical processes;
  • while there's life there's hope
Meaning (4):
- people who are still living
Example in sentence:
  • save your pity for the living
5 . living [ a]
Meaning (5):
- pertaining to living persons
Example in sentence:
  • within living memory
6 . living [ s]
Meaning (6):
- still in active use
Example in sentence:
  • a living language
Meaning (7):
- (informal) absolute
Example in sentence:
  • beat the living hell out of him;
  • scared the living daylights out of them;
  • she is a living doll
Meaning (8):
- (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
Example in sentence:
  • carved into the living stone
Meaning (9):
- true to life; lifelike
Example in sentence:
  • the living image of her mother
Meaning (10):
- still in existence
Example in sentence:
  • the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania;
  • 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

Nearby Words:

livable live live-forever lived livelihed livelihood livelily liveliness livelode livelong

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