Living word meaning and definition

[noun] the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
[noun] people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
[noun] 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"
[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"
[adjective] (intensifier) "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
[adjective] having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue"; "living plants and animals"
[adjective] still in active use; "a living language"
[adjective] 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"
[adjective] true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
[adjective] pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
[adjective] dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination; "living quarters"; "tree-living animals"

\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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