(law) A document, made by a person when still legally fit to do so, which provides clear instructions or principles to be employed by a surrogate decision-maker, such as expressing a desire to be allowed to die instead of being kept alive by artificial means, in the event of being severely disabled or suffering from a terminal illness.

simple past tense and past participle of live

(in combination) Having a specified duration of life.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of live

plural of life

Looking like someone currently lives there or has lived there, not pristine, not new / (euphemistic) Looking sloppily kept. / (Of a dramatic performance) fully-realized, well-observed.

Living on the premises, usually said of a household employee.

plural of living

(idiomatic, transitive) To survive solely by consuming a certain thing. / (idiomatic, intransitive) To endure.

The property of being alive.