1. (

• life ,
• living

) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" ;

2. (

• living

) people who are still living; "save your pity for the living" ;

3. (

• animation ,
• life ,
• living ,
• aliveness

) 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" ;

4. (

• support ,
• keep ,
• livelihood ,
• living ,
• bread_and_butter ,
• sustenance

) 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" ;

1. (

• populate ,
• dwell ,
• live ,
• inhabit

) be an inhabitant of or reside in; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" ;

2. (

• live ,

) lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war" ;

3. (

• survive ,
• last ,
• live ,
• live_on ,
• go ,
• endure ,
• hold_up ,
• hold_out

) continue to live and avoid dying; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" "One crash victim died, the other lived" ;

4. (

• exist ,
• survive ,
• live ,
• subsist

) support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" ;

5. (

• be ,
• live

) have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" ;

6. (

• know ,
• experience ,
• live

) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" ;

7. (

• live ,

) pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" ;

1. (

• living

) pertaining to living persons; "within living memory" ;

2. (

• living

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

3. (

• living

) (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him" ;

4. (

• surviving ,
• living

) 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" ;

5. (

• living ,

) still in active use; "a living language" ;

6. (

• living

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