livingadjective
uk/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ/us/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ/living adjective (HAVING LIFE)
B2 alive now:
living organisms
He is probably the best-known living architect.
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- Don't all living creatures have certain rights?
- Water is essential for/to living things.
- All living things are interdependent.
- She would never harm another living creature.
- They are hoping to discover living organisms in the soil.
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Life and living
- alive
- animate
- borrow
- cheat
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist
- cradle
- hold
- immortal
- inanimate
- last
- last out
- lead 1
- life cycle
- life expectancy
- live out sth
- longevity
- outlive
- subsist
- subsistence
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living adjective (CONTINUING)
still existing:
The pyramids are a living monument to the skill of their builders.
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Existing and being
- account for sth
- alive
- am
- are
- be
- come
- existent
- extant
- go
- go back
- have legs idiom
- hood
- languish
- lie
- lie in sth
- live
- lurk
- run
- stalk
- was
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livingnoun
uk/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ/us/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ/living noun (MONEY)
B2 [ C ] the money that you earn from your job:
What do you do for a living? (= What is your job?)
I mean, I don't like my job but at least it's a living (= a way of earning money).
See also
livelihood
make a living
to earn enough money to buy the things you need:
Everyone has to make a living.
You can make a good living (= earn a lot of money) in sales if you have the right attitude.
[ C ] old-fashioned in the Church of England, the job, given to a priest, of being in charge of a particular area
More examples
- You can't expect to earn a living from your painting.
- Most artists find it almost impossible to make a living from art alone.
- He managed to eke out a living one summer by selling drinks on a beach.
- They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets.
- How do you make a living as a painter?
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Earning money
- bank
- base pay
- be quids in idiom
- black money
- blast
- bread
- bread and butter
- breadwinner
- bring sth in
- commission
- danger money
- draw
- earn
- fundraiser
- honorarium
- hustle
- income
- money for old rope idiom
- payday
- venal
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living noun (WAY OF LIFE)
[ U ] the way in which you live your life:
country/healthy living
See also
cost of living
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Lifestyles & their study
- affluenza
- anthropogenic
- anthropologist
- anthropology
- cultural
- culture
- demographer
- ethnography
- ethnological
- ethnology
- hermetic
- lifestyle
- lot
- milieu
- sociocultural
- suburbia
- the global village
- trend
- vegetate
- way of life idiom
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living noun (PEOPLE)
the living [ plural ]
people who are still alive:
On this anniversary of the tragedy we remember the living as well as the dead.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Life and living
- alive
- animate
- borrow
- cheat
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist
- cradle
- hold
- immortal
- inanimate
- last
- last out
- lead 1
- life cycle
- life expectancy
- live out sth
- longevity
- outlive
- subsist
- subsistence
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