living
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - IPA(key): /ˈlɪvɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ
Adjective
living (not comparable)
- Having life.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix:
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
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- In use or existing.
- Hunanese is a living language.
- Of everyday life.
- These living conditions are deplorable.
- True to life.
- This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
- Used as an intensifier.
- He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Hyponyms
- long-living
- longest-living
Related terms
Translations
having life
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in use or existing
of everyday life
true to life
used as an intensifier
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Noun
living (countable and uncountable, plural livings)
- (uncountable) The state of being alive.
- (plural, with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who are alive.
- Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
- Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
- What do you do for a living?
- A style of life.
- plain living
- (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
- 2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:
- The patron of the living who had the right to nominate a particular priest might make the choice, but the living was actually granted by the local bishop.
- 2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:
Translations
state of being alive
financial means; a means of maintaining life
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style of life
Italian
Etymology
From English living room.
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