living

Having life; alive.

a living, breathing child

Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.

In use or existing.

Hunanese is a living language.

The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.

True to life.

This is the living image of Fidel Castro.

Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.

This we followed for about five paces, when it suddenly widened out into a small chamber, about eight feet square, and hewn out of the living rock.

Continually updated; not static

HTML is a living standard.

The state of being alive.

Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood

it's a living

What do you do for a living?

A style of life.

plain living

The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.

Those who are alive: living people.

in the land of the living

Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]

A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

A Rectory or Parſonage, is a Spirituall liuing, compoſed of Land, Tythe, and other Oblations of the people, ſeparate or dedicate to God in any Congregation, for the ſeruice of his Church there, and for the maintenance of the Gouernour or Miniſter thereof, to vvhoſe charge the ſame is committed.

The patron of the living who had the right to nominate a particular priest might make the choice, but the living was actually granted by the local bishop.