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IPA^(key): /ˈlɪvɪŋ/
Rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ

VerbEdit

living

present participle of live

AdjectiveEdit

living (not comparable)

Having life.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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.
Used as an intensifier.
He almost beat the living daylights out of me.

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Related termsEdit

live, life
alive

TranslationsEdit

having life

Armenian: կենդանի (hy) (kendani), (colloquial, dialectal) սաղ (hy) (sał)
Azerbaijani: diri (az), sağ (az)
Bashkir: тере (tere)
Bengali: জীবন্ত (jibôntô)
Catalan: viu (ca)
Finnish: elävä (fi), elollinen (fi)
French: vivant (fr)
Galician: vivo (gl)
German: lebend (de)
Greek: ζωντανός (el) (zontanós), έμβιος (el) (émvios)
Ancient: ζωός (zōós)
Hebrew: חי‎ (he) (khay)
Icelandic: lifandi (is)
Latin: animalis (la), vivus (la)

Maori: kaiao
Polish: żywy (pl)
Portuguese: vivo (pt), vivente (pt)
Rapa Nui: aringa
Romanian: viu (ro) m, vie (ro) f
Russian: живо́й (ru) (živój), живу́щий (ru) (živúščij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: живети, живјети

Roman: živeti (sh), živjeti (sh)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: žywy
Swedish: levande (sv)
Ukrainian: живий (žyvýj)

in use or existing

Finnish: elävä (fi)
Galician: vivo (gl) m
German: lebend (de), existent (de)
Greek: ζωντανός (el) (zontanós)
Hebrew: קַיָּם‎ (he) m
Polish: żywy (pl)

Portuguese: vivo (pt)
Russian: живу́щий (ru) (živúščij), живо́й (ru) (živój)
Serbo-Croatian: živuća
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: žywy
Swedish: levande (sv)

of everyday life

Finnish: (in compounds) elin-
German: Lebens-
Mandarin: 生活 (zh)

Russian: жи́зненный (ru) (žíznennyj)
Serbo-Croatian: živući (sh)

true to life

Bashkir: тормошсан (tormošsan)
Finnish: elävä (fi)
German: lebensecht
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жива

Roman: živa (sh)

Swedish: levande (sv)

used as an intensifier

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Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vive, ^{(please verify)} vivente
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} viu (ro)

Spanish: ^{(please verify)} vivo (es), ^{(please verify)} viviente (es)

NounEdit

living (countable and uncountable, plural livings)

(uncountable) The state of being alive.
(plural, with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who are alive.
Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
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.