within living memory Definition

living
adj

1. Having life; alive.

Thesaurus: alive, animated, breathing, existing, vital, vigorous, active; Antonym: dead, deceased.
2. Currently in existence, use or activity.
3. Said of a likeness: exact.
4. People who are alive (see the 4b).

Form: the living

noun

1. Livelihood or means of subsisting.
2. A manner of life.

Example: riotous living
3. C of E.
A position as a vicar or rector which has an income or property attached to it.

Idiom: beat the living daylights out of someone (scare the living daylights out of someone)

To give them a severe beating or fright.

Idiom: within living memory

Within a period of time remembered by people who are still alive.

Etymology: 14c: from Anglo-Saxon lifian, libban.