living.
Having life; alive.
Meaning & usage
Having life; alive.
a living, breathing child
Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
In use or existing.
Hunanese is a living language.
True to life.
This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
Continually updated; not static
HTML is a living standard.
Used as an intensifier.
He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Where this word comes from
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”).
The state of being alive.
Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
it's a living
What do you do for a living?
A style of life.
plain living
The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.
Those who are alive: living people.
in the land of the living
Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]
A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
Where this word comes from
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”).
present participle of live
Where this word comes from
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”).
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