Definitions for living

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IPA: /ˈlɪv ɪŋ/

Living is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in living (giilnv).

Definitions for living

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.

Idioms

1. live high off / on the hog. hog (def 16).
2. live it up, Informal. to live in an extravagant or wild manner; pursue pleasure:
3. live well, to live comfortably:

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):

Verb phrases

1. live down, to live so as to allow (a mistake, disgrace, etc.) to be forgotten or forgiven:
2. live in/out, to reside at or away from the place of one's employment, especially as a domestic servant:
3. live up to, to live in accordance with (expectations or an ideal or standard); measure up to:

verb (used with object)

1. to pass (life):
2. to practice, represent, or exhibit in one's life:

verb (used without object)

1. to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions:
2. to continue to have life; remain alive:
3. to continue in existence, operation, memory, etc.; last:
4. to maintain or support one's existence; provide for oneself:
5. to feed or subsist (usually followed by on or upon):
6. to dwell or reside (usually followed by in, at, etc.):
7. to pass life in a specified manner:
8. to direct or regulate one's life:
9. to experience or enjoy to the full:
10. to cohabit (usually followed by with).
11. to escape destruction or remain afloat, as a ship or aircraft.

Origin of living

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

Examples for living

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.