living
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living
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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.
- Of everyday life.
- These living conditions are deplorable.
- True to life.
- This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
- Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
- 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.
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.- HTML is a living standard.
- Used as an intensifier.
- He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
SynonymsEdit
- (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
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having life
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in use or existing
of everyday life
true to life
used as an intensifier
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NounEdit
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.
- 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.
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state of being alive
financial means; a means of maintaining life
style of life
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French living or less plausibly an independent truncated borrowing from English living room.
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living m (plural livings)
- (Belgium) A living room.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English.
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living m (plural livings)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English living room.
NounEdit
living m (plural living)
- living room
- Synonym: soggiorno
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English [[living room#English|living (room)]].
NounEdit
living m (plural livings)
- (Argentina) living room
- Synonym: sala de estar