Noun
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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"
- bread and butter -
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"
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people who are still living
"save your pity for the living"
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the experience of being alive
the course of human events and activities
"he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
Adjective
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(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place
not mined or quarried
"carved into the living stone"
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still in active use
"a living language"
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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"
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(informal) absolute
"she is a living doll"
"scared the living daylights out of them"
"beat the living hell out of him"
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true to life
lifelike
"the living image of her mother"
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pertaining to living persons
"within living memory"