The noun living has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (7) life, living -- (the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life")
2. (2) living -- (people who are still living; "save your pity for the living")
3. (1) animation, life, living, aliveness -- (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")
4. (1) support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance -- (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")
Overview of verb live
The verb live has 7 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (133) dwell, live, inhabit -- (inhabit or live in; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean")
2. (51) live -- (lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war")
3. (30) survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out -- (continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?")
4. (16) exist, survive, live, subsist -- (support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day")
5. (15) be, live -- (have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war")
6. (1) know, experience, live -- (have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces")
7. live -- (pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live")
Overview of adj living
The adj living has 7 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (2) living -- (pertaining to living persons; "within living memory")
2. (2) living -- (true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother")
3. (1) living -- (dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination; "living quarters"; "tree-living animals")
4. (1) living -- ((informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him")
5. surviving, living -- (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")
6. living -- (still in active use; "a living language")
7. living -- ((used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";)