Living Meaning
/ˈlɪvɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbpresent participle of live
adjHaving life; alive.
Sentence Examples
I think my living with you has influenced your way of living.
You will soon get accustomed to living here.
She earns her living as a freelance journalist.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ plants in the garden require water and sunlight for growth.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ room was decorated with beautiful paintings and comfortable furniture for all the family today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English livynge, libbyng, livinde, livand, livende, libbinde, libbende, from Old English lifiġende, lifiende, libbende, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjandī, from Proto-Germanic *libjandz (“living”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian libbend (“living”), Dutch levend (“living”), German lebend (“living”), Swedish levande (“living”), Icelandic lifandi (“living”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 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:
"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."
— 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
"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."
— 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
"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."
— 1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14:
"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."
— 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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ plants in the garden require water and sunlight for growth.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ room was decorated with beautiful paintings and comfortable furniture for all the family today.