conj
Meaning 1
Given that; since.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
being
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.ɪŋ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbiːŋ/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈbi.ɪŋ/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈbiŋ/
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rhymes with -iːɪŋ
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noun
Meaning 2
A living creature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1608-1634, John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being.
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noun
Meaning 4
That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
An abode; a cottage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 7
present participle and gerund of be
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 8
a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: organism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: living thing, animate thing
Narrower terms: benthos, dwarf, heterotroph, parent, person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul, animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna, plant, flora, plant life, native, recombinant, conspecific, carrier, denizen, amphidiploid, diploid, haploid, heteroploid, polyploid, animalcule, animalculum, microorganism, micro-organism, aerobe, anaerobe, hybrid, crossbreed, cross, polymorph, relative, congener, congenator, congeneric, plankton, nekton, parasite, host, commensal, myrmecophile, eukaryote, eucaryote, prokaryote, procaryote, zooid, clone, clon, atavist, throwback, mascot, mutant, mutation, variation, sport, postdiluvian, sitter, stander, utterer, vocalizer, vocaliser, fungus, nonvascular organism, relict, saprophyte, saprophytic organism, saprobe, katharobe
noun
Meaning 9
the state or fact of existing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a point of view gradually coming into being
- laws in existence for centuries
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beingness, existence
Antonyms: nonbeing
Broader terms: state
Narrower terms: actuality, eternity, timelessness, timeless existence, preexistence, coexistence, subsistence, presence, life, animation, living, aliveness, transcendence, transcendency, possibility, possibleness
History
Etymology
Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English being; see be + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
197 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: би́дейки (bídejki) — Translations
- French: étant donné que — Translations
- Macedonian: бидејќи (bidejḱi) — Translations
- Afrikaans: wese — a living creature
- Albanian: Qënie — a living creature
- Arabic: كَائِن (kāʔin) — a living creature
- Arabic: مَخْلُوق (maḵlūq) — a living creature
- Armenian: էակ (ēak) — a living creature
- Aromanian: hiintsã — a living creature
- Aromanian: yeatsã — a living creature
- Azerbaijani: məxluq — a living creature
- Belarusian: істо́та (istóta) — a living creature
- Belarusian: стварэ́нне (stvarénnje) — a living creature
- Bulgarian: същество́ (sǎštestvó) — a living creature
- Bulgarian: създа́ние (sǎzdánie) — a living creature
- Bulgarian: твар (tvar) — a living creature
- Catalan: ésser — a living creature
- Chinese Mandarin: 生物 (shēngwù) — a living creature
- Maore Comorian: shiumbe — a living creature
- Czech: bytost — a living creature
- Czech: tvor — a living creature
- Czech: stvoření — a living creature
- Danish: væsen — a living creature
- Dutch: wezen — a living creature
- Esperanto: estaĵo — a living creature
- Esperanto: estulo — a living creature
- Estonian: olend — a living creature
- Finnish: olento — a living creature
- French: être — a living creature
- French: créature — a living creature
- Georgian: არსება (arseba) — a living creature
- German: Wesen — a living creature
- German: Geschöpf — a living creature
- Greek: ον (on) — a living creature
- Greek: πλάσμα (plásma) — a living creature
- Hebrew: בריה — a living creature
- Hebrew: יצור — a living creature
- Hungarian: lény — a living creature
- Icelandic: vera — a living creature
- Indonesian: makhluk — a living creature
- Irish: neach — a living creature
- Irish: dúil — a living creature
- Italian: essere — a living creature
- Italian: creatura — a living creature
- Japanese: 生き物 (ikimono) — a living creature
- Japanese: 生物 (seibutsu) — a living creature
- Khmer: ភាវៈរស់ (phea veak ros) — a living creature
- Khmer: ជន (cɔɔn) — a living creature
- Korean: 생명체 (saengmyeongche) — a living creature
- Latin: creatura — a living creature
- Latin: ens — a living creature
- Latin: animatum — a living creature
- Latin: animate — a living creature
- Latin: res — a living creature
- Latin: natura — a living creature
- Latvian: būtne — a living creature
- Latvian: radījums — a living creature
- Lithuanian: būtybė — a living creature
- Livonian: lejā — a living creature
- Macedonian: суштество (suštestvo) — a living creature
- Manchu: ᡝᡵᡤᡝᠩᡤᡝ (ergengge) — a living creature
- Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠢᠲᠠᠨ (amitan) — a living creature
- Mongolian: амьтан (amʹtan) — a living creature
- Norwegian: vesen — a living creature
- Polish: stwór — a living creature
- Polish: istota — a living creature
- Portuguese: ser — a living creature
- Portuguese: criatura — a living creature
- Romanian: ființă — a living creature
- Romanian: creatură — a living creature
- Romanian: făptură — a living creature
- Russian: существо́ — a living creature
- Russian: тварь (tvarʹ) — a living creature
- Russian: созда́ние (sozdánije) — a living creature
- Russian: творе́ние (tvorénije) — a living creature
- Serbo-Croatian: биће — a living creature
- Serbo-Croatian: створ — a living creature
- Serbo-Croatian: створење — a living creature
- Serbo-Croatian: biće — a living creature
- Serbo-Croatian: stvor — a living creature
- Serbo-Croatian: stvorenje — a living creature
- Slovak: tvor — a living creature
- Slovak: stvorenie — a living creature
- Slovak: bytosť — a living creature
- Slovene: bitje — a living creature
- Slovene: stvor — a living creature
- Spanish: ser — a living creature
- Spanish: criatura — a living creature
- Spanish: ente — a living creature
- Swedish: varelse — a living creature
- Swedish: väsen — a living creature
- Turkish: yaratık — a living creature
- Ukrainian: істо́та (istóta) — a living creature
- Ukrainian: створі́ння (stvorínnja) — a living creature
- Ukrainian: су́тність (sútnistʹ) — a living creature
- Ukrainian: твари́на (tvarýna) — a living creature
- Ukrainian: тварь (tvarʹ) — a living creature
- Unami: pèmhakamiksit — a living creature
- Venetan: èsare — a living creature
- Vietnamese: sinh vật — a living creature
- Volapük: jafäb — a living creature
- Volapük: hijafäb — a living creature
- Volapük: jijafäb — a living creature
- Zazaki: conawır — a living creature
- Arabic: كَيْنُونَة (kaynūna) — the state or fact of existence
- Arabic: كَوْن (kawn) — the state or fact of existence
- Armenian: գոյություն (goyutʻyun) — the state or fact of existence
- Azerbaijani: varlıq — the state or fact of existence
- Bashkir: барлыҡ (barlıq) — the state or fact of existence
- Bashkir: йәшәйеш (yəşəyeş) — the state or fact of existence
- Belarusian: існава́нне (isnavánnje) — the state or fact of existence
- Belarusian: быццё (byccjó) — the state or fact of existence
- Bulgarian: съществу́ване (sǎštestvúvane) — the state or fact of existence
- Bulgarian: битие (bitie) — the state or fact of existence
- Catalan: ésser — the state or fact of existence
- Chinese Mandarin: 存在 (cúnzài) — the state or fact of existence
- Czech: existence — the state or fact of existence
- Czech: život — the state or fact of existence
- Czech: bytí — the state or fact of existence
- Danish: opstå — the state or fact of existence
- Dutch: bestaan — the state or fact of existence
- Esperanto: esto — the state or fact of existence
- Estonian: olemasolu — the state or fact of existence
- Finnish: olemassaolo — the state or fact of existence
- French: existence — the state or fact of existence
- French: être — the state or fact of existence
- German: Sein — the state or fact of existence
- German: Dasein — the state or fact of existence
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (wists) — the state or fact of existence
- Greek: ύπαρξη (ýparxi) — the state or fact of existence
- Hebrew: ישות (yeshut) — the state or fact of existence
- Hungarian: lét (ezés) — the state or fact of existence
- Icelandic: tilvera — the state or fact of existence
- Indonesian: keberadaan — the state or fact of existence
- Indonesian: ada — the state or fact of existence
- Irish: beith — the state or fact of existence
- Italian: esistenza — the state or fact of existence
- Japanese: 存在 (sonzai) — the state or fact of existence
- Kazakh: болмыс (bolmys) — the state or fact of existence
- Korean: 존재 (jonjae) — the state or fact of existence
- Latin: vita — the state or fact of existence
- Latin: ortus — the state or fact of existence
- Latin: caput — the state or fact of existence
- Latin: salus — the state or fact of existence
- Latin: salus — the state or fact of existence
- Latin: natura — the state or fact of existence
- Latin: vis — the state or fact of existence
- Latin: essentia — the state or fact of existence
- Latvian: eksistence — the state or fact of existence
- Latvian: esamība — the state or fact of existence
- Lithuanian: egzistavimas — the state or fact of existence
- Macedonian: битие (bitie) — the state or fact of existence
- Macedonian: постоење (postoenje) — the state or fact of existence
- Manx: beays — the state or fact of existence
- Māori: kaiaotanga — the state or fact of existence
- Māori: tauoranga — the state or fact of existence
- Eastern Mari: вуй (vuj) — the state or fact of existence
- Mongolian: ᠠᠬᠤᠢ (aqui) — the state or fact of existence
- Mongolian: ᠣᠷᠣᠰᠢᠬᠤᠢ (orosiqui) — the state or fact of existence
- Mongolian: ахуй (axuj) — the state or fact of existence
- Mongolian: оршихуй (oršixuj) — the state or fact of existence
- Norwegian: tilværelse — the state or fact of existence
- Norwegian: det å være — the state or fact of existence
- Norwegian: bli til — the state or fact of existence
- Persian: وجود (vojud) — the state or fact of existence
- Persian: بوش (boveš) — the state or fact of existence
- Persian: هستی (hasti) — the state or fact of existence
- Polish: istnienie — the state or fact of existence
- Polish: bycie — the state or fact of existence
- Polish: byt — the state or fact of existence
- Portuguese: existência — the state or fact of existence
- Romanian: existență — the state or fact of existence
- Romanian: naștere — the state or fact of existence
- Romanian: ființă — the state or fact of existence
- Russian: существова́ние (suščestvovánije) — the state or fact of existence
- Russian: бытие́ (bytijé) — the state or fact of existence
- Serbo-Croatian: биће — the state or fact of existence
- Serbo-Croatian: biće — the state or fact of existence
- Slovak: vznik — the state or fact of existence
- Slovak: bytosť — the state or fact of existence
- Slovak: bytie — the state or fact of existence
- Slovene: bivanje — the state or fact of existence
- Slovene: obstajanje — the state or fact of existence
- Slovene: bitje — the state or fact of existence
- Spanish: existencia — the state or fact of existence
- Swedish: tillvaro — the state or fact of existence
- Swedish: existens — the state or fact of existence
- Tagalog: kamagingan — the state or fact of existence
- Thai: สัต (sàt) — the state or fact of existence
- Thai: ภาวะ (paa-wá) — the state or fact of existence
- Turkish: varlık — the state or fact of existence
- Ukrainian: існува́ння (isnuvánnja) — the state or fact of existence
- Ukrainian: буття́ (buttjá) — the state or fact of existence
- Volapük: dabin — the state or fact of existence
- Zazaki: estek — the state or fact of existence
- ǃXóõ: ǃnáã — the state or fact of existence
- Esperanto: esteco — basic nature
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