What does exist mean?
Definitions for exist
ɪgˈzɪstex·ist
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word exist.
Princeton's WordNet
exist, beverb
have an existence, be extant
"Is there a God?"
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
existverb
to be; have existence; have being or reality
Etymology: From existo, from ex + sistere, caus. of stare; see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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
Existverb
to be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual
Existverb
to be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign
Existverb
to live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land
Wikidata
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
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, exsistĕre—ex, out, sistĕre, to make to stand.]
Editors Contribution
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
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'exist' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1902
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'exist' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2604
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'exist' in Verbs Frequency: #199
Anagrams for exist »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of exist in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of exist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of exist in a Sentence
Love existed, still in existence and will still exist no matter how the world turns out.
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.
[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.
It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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- bestaanAfrikaans
- عاش, يوجدArabic
- існавацьBelarusian
- съществувамBulgarian
- existirCatalan, Valencian
- být, existovatCzech
- eksistereDanish
- bestehen, existierenGerman
- υφίσταμαι, υπάρχωGreek
- ekzistiEsperanto
- existirSpanish
- olla, olla olemassaFinnish
- finnast, vera til, veraFaroese
- existerFrench
- bí annIrish
- existirGalician
- मौजूदHindi
- van, létezik, élHungarian
- լինել, գոյություն ունենալArmenian
- existerInterlingua
- existarIdo
- esistereItalian
- 存在するJapanese
- មានKhmer
- 存在, 하다, 존재하다Korean
- existere, exto, exsistere, consto, exsto, sumLatin
- pastāvēt, eksistētLatvian
- bestaanDutch
- eksistereNorwegian
- istnieć, egzystowaćPolish
- existirPortuguese
- kayQuechua
- existaRomanian
- существоватьRussian
- egzistírati, òpstojati, bȉvstvovati, póstojatiSerbo-Croatian
- jestvovaťSlovak
- existeraSwedish
- varoluşTurkish
- існуватиUkrainian
- 存在, tồn tạiVietnamese
- dabinönVolapük
- 存在Chinese
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