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living   (TTS Sound)

The noun living has 4 senses

• life, living -- (the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life")


• living -- (people who are still living; "save your pity for the living")


• animation, life, living, aliveness -- (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")


• support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance -- (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")

The verb live has 7 senses

• populate, dwell, live, inhabit -- (inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods")


• live -- (lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war")


• survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out -- (continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?")


• exist, survive, live, subsist -- (support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day")


• be, live -- (have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war")


• know, experience, live -- (have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces")


• live -- (pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live")

The adj living has 6 senses

• living -- (pertaining to living persons; "within living memory")


• living -- (true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother")


• living -- ((informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him")


• surviving, living -- (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")


• living -- (still in active use; "a living language")


• living -- ((used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";)