n.

1. the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities;
   life
   
   • he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
2. people who are still living
   
   • save your pity for the living
3. the condition of living or the state of being alive;
   animation, life, aliveness
   
   • while there's life there's hope
   • life depends on many chemical and physical processes
4. the financial means whereby one lives;
   support, keep, livelihood, bread and butter, sustenance
   
   • each child was expected to pay for their keep
   • he applied to the state for support
   • he could no longer earn his own livelihood

adj.

1. pertaining to living persons
   
   • within living memory
2. true to life; lifelike
   
   • the living image of her mother
3. dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination
   
   • living quarters
   • tree-living animals
4. (informal) absolute
   
   • she is a living doll
   • scared the living daylights out of them
   • beat the living hell out of him
5. still in existence;
   surviving
   
   • 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
6. still in active use
   
   • a living language
7. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";;
   living(a)