Definition: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
Usage: he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
Main entry: living
Definition: people who are still living
Usage: save your pity for the living
Main entry: bread and butter, livelihood, living, keep, support, sustenance
Definition: the financial means whereby one lives
Usage: each child was expected to pay for their keep; he applied to the state for support; he could no longer earn his own livelihood
Main entry: life, living, aliveness, animation
Definition: the condition of living or the state of being alive
Usage: while there's life there's hope; life depends on many chemical and physical processes
Main entry: living
Definition: (informal) absolute
Usage: she is a living doll; scared the living daylights out of them; beat the living hell out of him
Main entry: living
Definition: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
Usage: carved into the living stone;
Main entry: living
Definition: still in active use
Usage: a living language
Definition: still in existence
Usage: 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
Main entry: living
Definition: true to life; lifelike
Usage: the living image of her mother
Main entry: living
Definition: pertaining to living persons
Usage: within living memory