living

vivo

Que no ha muerto y sigue teniendo vida.

En inglés sencillo: Alive, rather than dead.

• Plants are living things.
• The doctor examined the living tissue.
• Every living creature needs a suitable place to survive.

Sinónimos: alive

Antónimos: dead

Expresiones frecuentes: living things, living tissue, living creature, living person

vivo, vigente

Que sigue usándose, practicándose o existiendo hoy y no pertenece solo al pasado.

En inglés sencillo: Still used, practised, or present today, rather than belonging only to the past.

• It is a living tradition.
• Welsh remains a living language in many communities.
• Nobody in living memory has seen the river this low.

Sinónimos: current, surviving

Antónimos: extinct

Expresiones frecuentes: living language, living tradition, living memory

sustento, medio de vida

Trabajo o ingresos que permiten pagar lo necesario para vivir.

En inglés sencillo: The work or income that pays for the things you need.

• What do you do for a living?
• She makes a living selling flowers.
• He earned a good living as a builder.

Cómo se usa: do something for a living (She repairs bicycles for a living.); earn a living by doing something (He earns a living by teaching music.)

Sinónimos: livelihood

Expresiones frecuentes: earn a living, for a living, make a living, decent living

vivos

Todas las personas que siguen con vida, consideradas como un grupo.

En inglés sencillo: People who are alive, considered together as a group.

• We must care for the living.
• The dead remain in the memories of the living.
• The rescue team searched for signs of the living.

Cómo se usa: the living (The memorial gives the living a place to remember.)

Sinónimos: quick

Antónimos: the dead

Expresiones frecuentes: the living, among the living