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living

/'lɪvɪŋ/

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noun
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
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life

type of:
experience
adjective
still in existence
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"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"

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surviving extant
noun
the financial means whereby one lives
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bread and butter keep livelihood support sustenance

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resource
noun
the condition of living or the state of being alive
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aliveness animation life

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being existence face of the earth beingness
adjective
(informal) absolute
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"she is a living doll" "scared the living daylights out of them" "beat the living hell out of him"

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absolute
noun
people who are still living
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"save your pity for the living"
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dead

type of:
people
adjective
still in active use
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"a living language"

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extant
adjective
true to life; lifelike
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"the living image of her mother"

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

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live
pertaining to living persons
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"within living memory"

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