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noun- 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"
animation life living aliveness
- 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"
support keep livelihood living bread and butter sustenance
- the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
"he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
life living
- people who are still living
"save your pity for the living"
living
adjective- pertaining to living persons
"within living memory"
living
- (informal) absolute
"she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
living
- 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"
surviving living
- (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
"carved into the living stone";
living
- true to life; lifelike
"the living image of her mother"
living
- still in active use
"a living language"
living
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University