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living in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. 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 
  2. 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 
  3. the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
    "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
    life  living 
  4. people who are still living
    "save your pity for the living"
    living 
adjective
  1. pertaining to living persons
    "within living memory"
    living 
  2. (informal) absolute
    "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
    living 
  3. 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 
  4. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
    "carved into the living stone";
    living 
  5. true to life; lifelike
    "the living image of her mother"
    living 
  6. still in active use
    "a living language"
    living 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University