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
existnoun
Sold direct from excluding third person singular present of the first Saint. 1.) have objective reality or being found in a particular place or situation. 2.) Live under adverse conditions benefiting alone with any person's supposed current, future, or past.
Everything that I need and want exist within my heart.
Etymology: The Most High
Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 4, 2024
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 »
sixte
exits
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
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:
We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational, whoever thinks that Europe can be competitive, that the European economy can be competitive without economic cooperation with Russia, whoever thinks that energy security can exist in Europe without the energy that comes from Russia, is chasing ghosts.
We are under no illusions about the obstacles that exist, there obviously remain sharp differences within the international community, especially about the future of President Assad.
It's a natural laboratory for studying how coral reefs might respond to climate change, these corals exist in hotter conditions than are projected for at least another century in places like Australias Great Barrier Reef and the Caribbean.
Weapons of mass destruction: Weapons of mass destruction cannot exist in a perfect world, but since the world we live in is full of evil I say keep them for your protection but always be responsible with them.
The sheer tonnage of materials... makes it very difficult for void spaces to exist.
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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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