living
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
living
- present participle and gerund of live
Adjective edit
living (not comparable)
- Having life; alive.
- a living, breathing child
- Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
- 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.
- In use or existing.
- Hunanese is a living language.
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
- True to life.
- This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
- Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- 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.
- Continually updated; not static
- HTML is a living standard.
- Used as an intensifier.
- He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Synonyms edit
- (having life): extant, living, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
- (existing): extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
- (representing life): lifey, lifelike, limned, lively, naturalistic
- (intensifier): blasted, doggone, stinking; see also Thesaurus:damned
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- activities of daily living
- by the living jingo
- clean-living
- free-living
- in living color
- in living memory
- knock the living daylights out of
- living bandage
- living constitution
- living dead
- living death
- living end
- living floor
- living fossil
- living hell
- living hinge
- living impaired
- living language
- living legend
- livingly
- living mulch
- living museum
- living newspaper
- living picture
- living proof
- living rock
- living room
- living sculpture
- living statue
- living stone
- living street
- living thing
- living tissue
- living tree doctrine
- living wall
- living will
- non-living
- scare the living daylights out of
- within living memory
Related terms edit
Translations edit
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Noun edit
living (countable and uncountable, plural livings)
- (uncountable) The state of being alive.
- 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.
- 1616, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesijs [Churches Not to Be Violated]. A Tract of the Rights and Respect Due unto Churches. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Iohn Beale, →OCLC, pages 2–3:
- 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.
- 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.
Derived terms edit
- assisted living
- cost of living
- earn a living
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
- it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
- living chamber
- living conditions
- living history
- living quarters
- living standard
- living wage
- make a living
- scratch a living
- simple living
- sober living house
- standard of living
- the world owes one a living
Translations edit
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French living or less plausibly an independent truncated borrowing from English living room.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
living m (plural livings)
- (Belgium) A living room.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English living (room).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
living m (plural livings)
Further reading edit
- “living”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English living room.
Noun edit
living m
- living room
- Synonym: soggiorno
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English living-room.
Noun edit
living n (plural livinguri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) living | livingul | (niște) livinguri | livingurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) living | livingului | (unor) livinguri | livingurilor |
vocative | livingule | livingurilor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English living (room).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
living m (plural livings)
- (Argentina, Chile) living room
- Synonym: sala de estar
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “living”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014