Definitions
1.Verbpresent participle of live
2.AdjectiveHaving life; alive."a living, breathing child; Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living."
3.AdjectiveIn use or existing."Hunanese is a living language."
4.AdjectiveTrue to life."This is the living image of Fidel Castro."
5.AdjectiveOf rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
6.AdjectiveContinually updated; not static"HTML is a living standard."
7.AdjectiveUsed as an intensifier."He almost beat the living daylights out of me."
8.NounThe state of being alive.
9.NounFinancial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood"it's a living; What do you do for a living?"
10.NounA style of life."plain living; The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living."
11.NounThose who are alive: living people."in the land of the living; Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]; Some say that the spirits of the departed walk among the living, though most of us do not see them."
12.NounA position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.