Definition of: living

(liv′ing) adjective
1. Having life or vitality; live: opposed to dead; pertaining to the living.
2. Actually operative or efficient; also, quickening or vivifying.
3. Flowing, as water: distinguished from stagnant.
4. Ignited; flaming: said of coal, etc.
5. Filled with or true to life; vivacious; lively; animated.
6. Enough to sustain life or live on: a living wage. See synonyms under ALIVE.
—noun
1. Livelihood.
2. In the Church of England, a benefice, or the revenue derived from it.
3. Manner of life.
4. Those who live; formerly, also, he who lives: with the definite article.
5. The fact of existing, or of dwelling in a certain place.
6. The action of existing or of passing one's life in a specified manner.
7. Obs. An estate; property; possessions.