living
English
editEtymology
editBy surface analysis, live + -ing.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editliving
- present participle and gerund of live
Adjective
editliving (not comparable)
- Having life; alive.
- a living, breathing child
- Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, 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.
- In use or existing.
- Hunanese is a living language.
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- 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.
- True to life.
- This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
- Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- 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.
- Continually updated; not static
- HTML is a living standard.
- Used as an intensifier.
- He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Synonyms
edit- (having life): extant, living, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
- (existing): extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
- (representing life): lifey, lifelike, limned, lively, naturalistic
- (intensifier): blasted, doggone, stinking; see also Thesaurus:damned
Antonyms
editHyponyms
editDerived terms
edit- activities of daily living
- by the living jingo
- clean-living
- free-living
- in living color
- in living memory
- knock the living daylights out of
- living bandage
- living constitution
- living dead
- living death
- living end
- living floor
- living fossil
- living hell
- living hinge
- living impaired
- living language
- living legend
- livingly
- living mulch
- living museum
- living newspaper
- living picture
- living proof
- living rock
- living room
- living sculpture
- living shield
- living space
- living statue
- living stone
- living street
- living thing
- living tissue
- living tree doctrine
- living wage
- living wall
- living will
- non-living
- scare the living daylights out of
- within living memory
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editTranslations
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Noun
editliving (countable and uncountable, plural livings)
- (uncountable) The state of being alive.
- Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
- it's a living
- What do you do for a living?
- 1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14:
- 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.
- A style of life.
- plain living
- The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.
- (with "the") Those who are alive: living people.
- (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
- 1616, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesijs [Churches Not to Be Violated]. A Tract of the Rights and Respect Due unto Churches. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Iohn Beale, →OCLC, pages 2–3:
- A Rectory or Parſonage, is a Spirituall liuing, compoſed of Land, Tythe, and other Oblations of the people, ſeparate or dedicate to God in any Congregation, for the ſeruice of his Church there, and for the maintenance of the Gouernour or Miniſter thereof, to vvhoſe charge the ſame is committed.
- 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
edit- assisted living
- cost of living
- earn a living
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
- it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
- land of the living
- living chamber
- living conditions
- living history
- living quarters
- living standard
- living wage
- make a living
- scratch a living
- simple living
- sober living house
- standard of living
- the world owes one a living
Translations
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Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French living or, less plausibly, an independent truncated borrowing from English living room.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editliving m (plural livings)
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English living (room).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editliving m (plural livings)
Further reading
edit- “living”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editPseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English living room.
Noun
editliving m
- living room
- Synonym: soggiorno
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English living-room.
Noun
editliving n (plural livinguri)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | living | livingul | livinguri | livingurile | |
genitive-dative | living | livingului | livinguri | livingurilor | |
vocative | livingule | livingurilor |
Spanish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English living (room).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editliving m (plural livings)
- (Argentina, Chile) living room
- Synonym: sala de estar
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
edit- “living”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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