Definitions for livings

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livings liv·ing

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IPA: /ˈlɪv ɪŋ/

Livings is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in livings (giilnsv).

Definitions for livings

noun

1. the act or condition of a person or thing that lives:
2. the means of maintaining life; livelihood:
3. a particular manner, state, or status of life:
4. (used with a plural verb) living persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
5. British. the benefice of a clergyman.

adjective

1. having life; being alive; not dead:
2. in actual existence or use; extant:
3. active or thriving; vigorous; strong:
4. burning or glowing, as a coal.
5. flowing freely, as water.
6. pertaining to, suitable for, or sufficient for existence or subsistence:
7. of or relating to living persons:
8. lifelike; true to life, as a picture or narrative.
9. in its natural state and place; not uprooted, changed, etc.:
10. Informal. very; absolute (used as an intensifier):

Origin of livings

before 900; (adj.) Middle English lyvyng(e); replacing earlier liviende, Old English lifgende (see live¹, -ing²); (noun)

Examples for livings

A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

Some one said the other day, "Ennui is a disease that comes from living on other people's money."

She won't think much of a boy that has to pick berries for a living.

"There is not one chance in ten that he is living," he said.

I first saw Marvin when I was ten years old, living with my parents in Arlington, Virginia.

It seems to me that life is no life, but living death, without that freedom!

Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.

Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.

So people say; but he doesn't show it in his dress or way of living.

But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.