living

English

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪvɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ

Verb

living

1. present participle of live

Adjective

living (not comparable)

1. Having life.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page ix:

     It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

2. In use or existing.

   Hunanese is a living language.

3. Of everyday life.

   These living conditions are deplorable.

4. True to life.

   This is the living image of Fidel Castro.

5. Used as an intensifier.

   He almost beat the living daylights out of me.

Antonyms

• dead
• nonliving

Hyponyms

• long-living
• longest-living

Related terms

Related terms

• living death
• living end

• livingly
• living room

• living thing

• living will

Related terms

• live, life
• alive

Translations

having life

• Armenian: կենդանի (hy) (kendani), (colloquial, dialectal) սաղ (hy) (sał)
• Bashkir: тере (tere)
• Bengali: জীবন্ত (jibôntô)
• Catalan: viu (ca)
• Finnish: elävä (fi), elollinen (fi)
• French: vivant (fr)
• Galician: vivo (gl)
• German: lebend (de)
• Greek: ζωντανός (el) (zontanós), έμβιος (el) (émvios)
• Hebrew: חי‏‎ (he) (khay)
• Icelandic: lifandi (is)
• Latin: animalis (la), vivus (la)

• Maori: kaiao
• Polish: żywy (pl)
• Portuguese: vivo (pt), vivente (pt)
• Rapa Nui: aringa
• Romanian: viu (ro) m, vie (ro) f
• Russian: живо́й (ru) (živój), живу́щий (ru) (živúščij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: живети, живјети

  Roman: živeti (sh), živjeti (sh)

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: žywy

• Swedish: levande (sv)
• Ukrainian: живий (žyvýj)

in use or existing

• Finnish: elävä (fi)
• German: lebend (de), existent
• Greek: ζωντανός (el) (zontanós)
• Hebrew: קַיָּם‏‎ (he) m
• Polish: żywy (pl)
• Portuguese: vivo (pt)

• Russian: живу́щий (ru) (živúščij), живо́й (ru) (živój)
• Serbo-Croatian: živuća
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: žywy

• Swedish: levande (sv)

of everyday life

• Finnish: (in compounds) elin-
• German: Lebens-
• Mandarin: 生活 (zh)

• Russian: жи́зненный (ru) (žíznennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: živući (sh)

true to life

• Bashkir: тормошсан (tormošsan)
• Finnish: elävä (fi)
• German: lebensecht
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жива

  Roman: živa (sh)

• Swedish: levande (sv)

used as an intensifier

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vive, ^{(please verify)} vivente
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} viu (ro)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} vivo (es), ^{(please verify)} viviente (es)

Noun

living (countable and uncountable, plural livings)

1. (uncountable) The state of being alive.
2. Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood

   What do you do for a living?

3. A style of life.

   plain living

4. (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
   • 2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:

     The patron of the living who had the right to nominate a particular priest might make the choice, but the living was actually granted by the local bishop.

Derived terms

• it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
• make a living

Translations

state of being alive

• Finnish: elo (fi), eläminen (fi), elämä (fi)
• German: Lebende f, Lebender m
• Greek: ζωή (el) f (zoí)
• Navajo: iiná

• Polish: życie (pl)
• Russian: жизнь (ru) f (žiznʹ)
• Swedish: liv (sv) n

financial means; a means of maintaining life

• Finnish: (in compounds) ansio-, työ (fi), elinkeino (fi)
• German: Lebensunterhalt (de) m
• Greek: επιούσιος (el) m (epioúsios)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: levebrød n

  Nynorsk: levebrød n

• Polish: życie (pl)
• Russian: сре́дства к существова́нию n pl (srédstva k suščestvovániju), жизнь (ru) f (žiznʹ)
• Spanish: ganarse la vida, trabajo (es) m

style of life

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生活 (zh) (shēnghuó)

• Finnish: elämä (fi), elintapa (fi), elo (fi), elämäntapa (fi)
• French: vie (fr) f
• German: Leben (de) n, Lebensumstände (de) f

• Japanese: 暮らし (くらし, kurashi), 生活 (ja) (せいかつ, seikatsu)
• Polish: życie (pl)
• Russian: жизнь (ru) f (žiznʹ)
• Spanish: estilo de vida m
• Tagalog: pamumuhay

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: 4 · late · bed · #530: living · view · although · knowledge

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Etymology

From English.

Noun

living m (plural livings)

1. living room

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Spanish

Etymology

English

Noun

living m (plural livings)

1. living room

Synonyms

• sala de estar