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- 1 Having life; alive. not-comparable
"a living, breathing child"
- 2 In use or existing. not-comparable
"Hunanese is a living language."
- 3 True to life. not-comparable
"This is the living image of Fidel Castro."
- 4 Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place. not-comparable
"This we followed for about five paces, when it suddenly widened out into a small chamber, about eight feet square, and hewn out of the living rock."
- 5 Continually updated; not static not-comparable
"HTML is a living standard."
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- 6 Used as an intensifier. not-comparable
"He almost beat the living daylights out of me."
- 1 (informal) absolute wordnet
- 2 (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried wordnet
- 3 still in active use wordnet
- 4 still in existence wordnet
- 5 true to life; lifelike wordnet
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- 6 pertaining to living persons wordnet
- 1 The state of being alive. uncountable
- 2 the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities wordnet
- 3 Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood countable, uncountable
"it's a living"
- 4 people who are still living wordnet
- 5 A style of life. countable, uncountable
"plain living"
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- 6 the financial means whereby one lives wordnet
- 7 Those who are alive: living people. countable, uncountable, with-definite-article
"in the land of the living"
- 8 the condition of living or the state of being alive wordnet
- 9 A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice. countable, uncountable
"A Rectory or Parſonage, is a Spirituall liuing, compoſed of Land, Tythe, and other Oblations of the people, ſeparate or dedicate to God in any Congregation, for the ſeruice of his Church there, and for the maintenance of the Gouernour or Miniſter thereof, to vvhoſe charge the ſame is committed."
- 1 present participle of live form-of, participle, present
Etymology
From Middle English livynge, libbyng, livinde, livand, livende, libbinde, libbende, from Old English lifiġende, lifiende, libbende, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjandī, from Proto-Germanic *libjandz (“living”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian libbend (“living”), Dutch levend (“living”), German lebend (“living”), Swedish levande (“living”), Icelandic lifandi (“living”).
From Middle English livynge, libbyng, livinde, livand, livende, libbinde, libbende, from Old English lifiġende, lifiende, libbende, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjandī, from Proto-Germanic *libjandz (“living”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian libbend (“living”), Dutch levend (“living”), German lebend (“living”), Swedish levande (“living”), Icelandic lifandi (“living”).
From Middle English livynge, libbynge, equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch levinge, (whence Dutch leving (“way of life, living”)), Middle Low German lēvinge (“living”).
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