living
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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”).
Base: live
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: livings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having life; alive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a living, breathing child
Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
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.
gloss: In use or existing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hunanese is a living language.
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.
gloss: True to life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
gloss: Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Continually updated; not static
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: HTML is a living standard.
gloss: Used as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
gloss: The state of being alive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: it's a living
What do you do for a living?
Career opportunity […] is the one who never knocks — especially not on the doors of women, who are still hooking, housewifing and hairdressing for their livings.
gloss: A style of life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: plain living
The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.
gloss: Those who are alive: living people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: in the land of the living
Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]
Some say that the spirits of the departed walk among the living, though most of us do not see them.
gloss: A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
Synonyms: vital
blasted
doggone
stinking
extant
lifey
lifelike
limned
lively
naturalistic
Antonyms: dead
nonliving
Related words: live
life
alive
Derived words: activities of daily living
by the living jingo
clean-living
everliving
free-living
high-living
high living
in living color
in living memory
knock the living daylights out of
landliving
living bandage
living constitution
living dead
living death
living diaper
living donation
living donor
living end
living fence
living floor
living fossil
living hell
living hinge
living impaired
living internet theory
living language
living legend
livingly
living memory
living mulch
living museum
livingness
living newspaper
living picture
living proof
living rock
living room
livingry
living sculpture
living shield
living space
living statue
living stone
living street
living thing
living tissue
living tree doctrine
living trust
living wall
living will
non-living
not a living soul
scare the living daylights out of
sliving
unliving
within living memory
living wage
assisted living
coliving
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
land of the living
living chamber
living conditions
living history
livingless
living quarters
living standard
make a living
misliving
scratch a living
simple living
sober living house
standard of living
the world owes one a living
what do you do for a living
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 生活
roman: shēnghuó
lang: Dutch
word: levens-
lang: Finnish
word: elin-
lang: German
word: Lebens-
lang: Korean
word: 생활의
roman: saenghwarui
lang: Korean
word: 거주의
roman: geojuui
lang: Polish
word: życiowy
lang: Russian
word: жи́зненный
roman: žíznennyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: živući
lang: Bulgarian
word: живите
roman: živite
lang: Latin
word: superī