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living

verb
/ˈlɪvɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English livynge, libbyng, livinde, livand, livende, libbinde, libbende, from Old English lifiġende, lifiende, libbende, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjandī, from Proto-Germanic *libjandz (“living”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian libbend (“living”), Dutch levend (“living”), German lebend (“living”), Swedish levande (“living”), Icelandic lifandi (“living”).

  1. derived from *libjaną✻ — “to live”
  2. inherited from *libjaną✻ — “living”
  3. inherited from *libbjan✻
  4. inherited from lifiġende
  5. inherited from livynge

Definitions

  1. present participle of live

  2. Having life

    Having life; alive.

    • a living, breathing child
    • Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
    • 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.

  3. In use or existing.

    • Hunanese is a living language.
    • The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. True to life.

      • This is the living image of Fidel Castro.

    2. Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.

      • This we followed for about five paces, when it suddenly widened out into a small chamber, about eight feet square, and hewn out of the living rock.

    3. Continually updated

      Continually updated; not static

      • HTML is a living standard.

    4. Used as an intensifier.

      • He almost beat the living daylights out of me.

    5. The state of being alive.

    6. Financial means

      Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood

      • it's a living
      • What do you do for a living?
      • Career opportunity […] is the one who never knocks — especially not on the doors of women, who are still hooking, housewifing and hairdressing for their livings.

    7. A style of life.

      • plain living
      • The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.

    8. Those who are alive

      Those who are alive: living people.

      • in the land of the living
      • Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]
      • Some say that the spirits of the departed walk among the living, though most of us do not see them.

    9. A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source…

      A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

      • 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.

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Derived

activities of daily living, by the living jingo, clean-living, everliving, free-living, high-living, in living color, in living memory, knock the living daylights out of, landliving, living bandage, living constitution, living dead, living death, living diaper, living donation, living donor, living end, living floor, living fossil, living hell, living hinge, living impaired, living internet theory, living language, living legend, livingly, living memory, living mulch, living museum, livingness, living newspaper, living picture, living proof, living rock, living room, livingry, living sculpture, living shield, living space · +37 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at living. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at living. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at living

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA