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Living   /lˈɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Living

noun
1.
The experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities.  Synonym: life.
2.
People who are still living.
3.
The condition of living or the state of being alive.  Synonyms: aliveness, animation, life.  "Life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
4.
The financial means whereby one lives.  Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance.  "He applied to the state for support" , "He could no longer earn his own livelihood"
adjective
1.
Pertaining to living persons.
2.
True to life; lifelike.
3.
(informal) absolute.  "Scared the living daylights out of them" , "Beat the living hell out of him"
4.
Still in existence.  Synonym: surviving.  "The only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
5.
Still in active use.
6.
(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried.


Live

verb
(past & past part. lived; pres. part. living)
1.
Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.  Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, populate.  "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted" , "This kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean" , "Deer are populating the woods"
2.
Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.
3.
Continue to live through hardship or adversity.  Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive.  "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" , "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" , "How long can a person last without food and water?"
4.
Support oneself.  Synonyms: exist, subsist, survive.  "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?" , "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
5.
Have life, be alive.  Synonym: be.  "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
6.
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.  Synonyms: experience, know.  "Have you ever known hunger?" , "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict" , "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare" , "I lived through two divorces"
7.
Pursue a positive and satisfying existence.



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"Living" Quotes from Famous Books



... home; all Brussels seemed living in the streets. The danger to the city, which had imprisoned all its inhabitants except the rabble or the military, once completely passed, the pride of feeling and showing their freedom seemed to stimulate their curiosity in seeking details on what had passed and was passing. But ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... on the graves of Beethoven and Schubert. On Beethoven's grave he found a steel pen, which he preserved as a sacred treasure, and used afterward in writing his own finest musical fancies. He remembered, too, that the brother of Schubert, Ferdinand, was still living in a suburb of Vienna. "He knew me," Schumann says, "from my admiration for his brother, as I had publicly expressed it, and showed me many things. At last he let me look at the treasures of Franz Schubert's compositions, which he still possesses. The wealth that lay heaped up ...
— Great Violinists And Pianists • George T. Ferris
... armor of the pilot-house, through which the captain peered, as through the bars of a helmet, to see his enemy and direct the course of his ship. The gun-turret could be entered or left by the hull below, which contained the living rooms of the officers and crew and all the usual and necessary arrangements of a ship of war, or by the gun-ports, which were large enough for a man to pass through. In action the hatches were down, and ordinarily the only exit from the hull below was through the ...
— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan
... been wont to say. "Here we are all living on the same hills and valleys and never meeting 'cept on Sundays when we have to, or now and again when there happens to be a funeral. I declare if I didn't drive about all the time behind Ella Lou, I'd never know how folks were getting on. So every two weeks the Judge ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... is all. And we have need of religion. We must have something to lean on, and men are poor props, as far as I have observed. Sometimes after having read a long while in an absorbing book, particularly one that seemed to put something with a living hand into my brain and make it feel larger, I find that I am miles away from the Church; I have forgotten its existence. I always ...
— The Doomswoman - An Historical Romance of Old California • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


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