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Meaning of living

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  living
      adj 1: pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
      2: true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
      3: (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the
         living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of
         him"
      4: 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" [syn:
         {surviving}, {living}]
      5: still in active use; "a living language"
      6: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place;
         not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";
      n 1: the experience of being alive; the course of human events
           and activities; "he could no longer cope with the
           complexities of life" [syn: {life}, {living}]
      2: people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
         [ant: {dead}]
      3: 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" [syn: {animation}, {life}, {living},
         {aliveness}]
      4: 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" [syn:
         {support}, {keep}, {livelihood}, {living}, {bread and
         butter}, {sustenance}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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