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List of meaning for living

alive; Not dead

life, living(noun)

the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

"he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"

living(noun)

people who are still living

"save your pity for the living"

animation, life, living, aliveness(noun)

the condition of living or the state of being alive

"while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"

support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance(adj)

the financial means whereby one lives

"each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"

living(adj)

pertaining to living persons

"within living memory"

living(adj)

true to life; lifelike

"the living image of her mother"

living(adj)

(informal) absolute

"she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"

surviving, living(adj)

still in existence

"the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"

living(adj)

still in active use

"a living language"

living(a)(adj)

(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried

"carved into the living stone";

being in effective operation a living tradition of the holiday season

a living culture that has survived a number of foreign invasions

having being at the present time

there are fewer than a dozen living former presidents

having or showing life

is your hamster still living?

closely resembling the object imitated

an outdoor museum that is a living re-creation of a typical New England village circa 1840

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