Meaning : The experience of being alive. The course of human events and activities.
Example :
He could no longer cope with the complexities of life.
Synonyms : life
Meaning : People who are still living.
Example :
Save your pity for the living.
Meaning : The financial means whereby one lives.
Example :
Each child was expected to pay for their keep.
He applied to the state for support.
He could no longer earn his own livelihood.
Synonyms : bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance
Meaning : Pertaining to living persons.
Example :
Within living memory.
Meaning : True to life. Lifelike.
Example :
The living image of her mother.
Meaning : (informal) absolute.
Example :
She is a living doll.
Scared the living daylights out of them.
Beat the living hell out of him.
Meaning : Still in existence.
Example :
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.
Synonyms : surviving
Meaning : Still in active use.
Example :
A living language.
Meaning : (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place. Not mined or quarried.
Example :
Carved into the living stone.