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How to pronounce living in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms life
Type of experience
Derivation live
Type Words
Synonyms 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.
Type Words
Synonyms bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance
Type of resource
Has types amenities, comforts, conveniences, creature comforts, maintenance, meal ticket, subsistence
Type Words
Synonyms aliveness, animation, life
Type of being, existence, face of the earth, beingness
Has types survival, endurance, eternal life, life eternal, skin
Derivation live
Type Words


she is a living doll.
scared the living daylights out of them.
beat the living hell out of him.
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Type of people


save your pity for the living.
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a living language.
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the living image of her mother.
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carved into the living stone.
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within living memory.

Examples of living

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Maybe living Leviticus would show us whether it was really so irrelevant or not.
From the abcnews.go.com
His primary interests, he says, are in city living and the structure of society.
From the stltoday.com
Clay eventually returned to Missouri, living with relatives in Lake Saint Louis.
From the stltoday.com
By 1840, more than 280,000 slaves were living in the state, many as field hands.
From the thenewstribune.com
This means a substantial reduction in the standard of living for most Americans.
From the washingtontimes.com
Why not create a living environment that blends with the best of your community?
From the thenewstribune.com
Perkins moved to Cairo, Illinois, in 1949 and made a living as an auto mechanic.
From the bloomberg.com
Look at their alternatives to living and going to school in Southern California.
From the ocregister.com
She writes about ordinary people living everyday lives in a down-to-earth style.
From the washingtontimes.com
More examples
  • Pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
  • Life: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
  • People who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
  • True to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
  • (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
  • Animation: 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"
  • Support: 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"
  • Surviving: 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"
  • Living was a Canadian informational television series which aired on CBC Television from 1954 to 1955.