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1. (v.i.) exist
to have actual being; be.
2. exist
to have life or animation; live.
3. exist
to continue to be or live:
Belief in magic still exists.
4. exist
to have being in a specified place or under certain conditions; be found; occur.
5. exist
to achieve the basic needs of existence, as food and shelter.
Etymology: (1595–1605; < L ex(s)istere to appear, emerge)
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| Definition of 'exist' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) exist, be
have an existence, be extant
"Is there a God?"
2. (verb) exist, survive, live, subsist
support oneself
"he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
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1. (verb) exist
to be present
ice sheets that existed 40 million years ago
2. exist
to be real
Do fairies really exist?
3. exist
to live or survive
You need water to exist.
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| Definition of 'exist' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) exist
to be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual
2. (verb) exist
to be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign
3. (verb) exist
to live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land
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Sense: to be something real or actual
Do ghosts really exist?
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 Afrikaans: bestaan |
 Arabic: يَنْوَجِدُ ،يَتَواجَد، يَ |
 Bulgarian: съществувам |
 Brazilian: existir |
 Czech: existovat |
 German: existieren |
 Danish: eksistere; findes |
 Greek: υπάρχω |
 Spanish: existir |
 Estonian: olemas olema |
 Farsi: وجود داشتن؛ بودن |
 Finnish: olla olemassa |
 French: exister |
 Hebrew: לִהיוֹת |
 Hindi: अस्तित्व होना |
 Croatian: postojati, biti |
 Hungarian: létezik |
 Indonesian: ada |
 Icelandic: vera til |
 Italian: esistere |
 Japanese: 存在する |
 Korean: 존재하다 |
 Lithuanian: egzistuoti, būti |
 Latvian: eksistēt, būt |
 Malay: wujud |
 Dutch: bestaan |
 Norwegian: være til, eksistere, fore |
 Polish: istnieć |
 Persian: وجود داشتن؛ بودن |
 Pashto: وجوددر لودل، ژوند كول، پا |
 Portuguese: existir |
 Romanian: a exista |
 Russian: существовать |
 Slovak: existovať |
 Slovenian: obstajati |
 Serbian: postojati |
 Swedish: existera, finnas [till] |
 Thai: มีจริง |
 Turkish: var olmak |
 Taiwanese: 存在 |
 Ukrainian: існувати, жити |
 Urdu: وجود رکھنا |
 Vietnamese: tồn tại |
 Chinese: 存在 |
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