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living

adjective
  1. absolute, total
    “I am a living doll.”
  2. still in active use
    “a living language”
  3. 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”
    extantsurviving
  4. true to life
  5. pertaining to living persons
    “within living memory”
  6. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place
noun
  1. the experience of being alive
    life
  2. people who are still living
    “save your pity for the living”
  3. the financial means whereby one lives
    support
  4. the condition of living or the state of being alive
    life