living
/ˈlɪvɪŋ/ noun B2- The state of being alive.
- Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood · it's a living· What do you do for a living?
- A style of life. · plain living· The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.
- Those who are alive: living people. · in the land of the living· Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]
- A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
Plural livings
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“You couldn’t have wanted it much,” said Alice; “living at the bottom of the sea.”
And my advice to the rich young man would be—sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor—janitor for the privilege of living in a flat with your Art and your Delia.
“This way of living that you speak of,” she said, “sounds so futile and purposeless.
The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.
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