living

vivant

Qui n’est pas mort et continue à vivre.

En anglais simple : Alive, rather than dead.

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

Synonymes : alive

Contraires : dead

Expressions courantes : living things, living tissue, living creature, living person

vivant

Qui existe encore aujourd’hui ou reste utilisé ou pratiqué.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : current, surviving

Contraires : extinct

Expressions courantes : living language, living tradition, living memory

gagne-pain, subsistance

Travail ou revenus qui permettent de payer ce dont on a besoin pour vivre.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : do something for a living (She repairs bicycles for a living.); earn a living by doing something (He earns a living by teaching music.)

Synonymes : livelihood

Expressions courantes : earn a living, for a living, make a living, decent living

vivants

L’ensemble des personnes qui sont encore en vie.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : the living (The memorial gives the living a place to remember.)

Synonymes : quick

Contraires : the dead

Expressions courantes : the living, among the living