Meaning & Definition of Living in English

1. The experience of being alive

• The course of human events and activities

• "He could no longer cope with the complexities of life"

2. People who are still living

• "Save your pity for the living"

3. 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"

4. 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"

1. Pertaining to living persons

• "Within living memory"

2. True to life

• Lifelike

• "The living image of her mother"

3. (informal) absolute

• "She is a living doll"

• "Scared the living daylights out of them"

• "Beat the living hell out of him"

4. 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"

5. Still in active use

• "A living language"

6. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place

• Not mined or quarried

• "Carved into the living stone"