a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past | living things collectively |
the time that has elapsed | animation and energy in action or expression |
a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) | the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities |
| an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
| a motive for living |
| a living person |
| the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones |
| the condition of living or the state of being alive |
| a characteristic state or mode of living |
| the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living |
| the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) |
| the period between birth and the present time |
| the period from the present until death |
| a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives |