What does exist mean?

Definitions for exist
ɪgˈzɪstex·ist

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. exist, beverb

    have an existence, be extant

    "Is there a God?"

  2. exist, survive, live, subsistverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. existverb

    to be; have existence; have being or reality

  2. Etymology: From existo, from ex + sistere, caus. of stare; see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To EXISTverb

    To be; to have a being.

    Etymology: existo, Latin.

    It is as easy to conceive that an infinite Almighty Power might produce a thing out of nothing, and make that to exist de novo, which did not exist before; as to conceive the world to have had no beginning, but to have existed from eternity. Robert South, Sermons.

    It seems reasonable to enquire, how such a multitude comes to make but one idea, since that combination does not always exist together in nature. John Locke.

    One year is past; a different scene!
    No farther mention of the dean:
    Who now, alas, no more is mist
    Than if he never did exist. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. exist

    To exist means to have objective reality or being; to be actual or real; to live at a certain time or place. It can also mean having presence in the perceived world, possessing life, consciousness or awareness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Existverb

    to be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual

  2. Existverb

    to be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign

  3. Existverb

    to live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land

Wikidata

  1. eXist

    eXist is an open source database management system entirely built on XML technology, also called a native XML database. Unlike most relational database management systems, eXist uses XQuery, which is a W3C Recommendation, to manipulate its data. eXist is released under version 2.1 of the GNU LGPL.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Exist

    egz-ist′, v.i. to have an actual being: to live: to continue to be.—n. Exist′ence, state of existing or being: continued being: life: anything that exists: a being.—adjs. Exist′ent, having being: at present existing; Existen′tial. [L. existĕre, exsistĕreex, out, sistĕre, to make to stand.]

Editors Contribution

  1. exist

    To have reality or life.

    They did exist in a very simple and basic reality.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 16, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'exist' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1902

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'exist' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2604

  3. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'exist' in Verbs Frequency: #199

Anagrams for exist »

  1. sixte

  2. exits

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of exist in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of exist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of exist in a Sentence

  1. Nansel Larson:

    Love existed, still in existence and will still exist no matter how the world turns out.

  2. Hank Green:

    And I think we’re having that now. And that’s not a conversation about young people and screen time. That’s a conversation about every single one of us in the society we exist in right now. but mostly the thing that we’re fine with is : OK, Hank Green’ve got this technology, use it how Hank Green can, and make as much money as Hank Green can, because that’s how that makes sense.

  3. Ken Paxton:

    [T]he United States Supreme Court again ignored the text and spirit of the Constitution to manufacture a right that simply does not exist, … Importantly, the reach of the Court’s opinion stops at the door of the First Amendment and our laws protecting religious liberty.

  4. Sir Arthur Eddington:

    It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

  5. Bernie Sanders:

    Now much has changed over the decades, but unfortunately, some things have not. Institutional racism existed then. Institutional racism exist today, the criminal justice system was broken then. The criminal justice system remains broken today. And that's the sad reality of where we are as a country.

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