What does exist mean?
Definitions for exist
ɪgˈzɪstex·ist
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Princeton's WordNet
exist, be(verb)
have an existence, be extant
"Is there a God?"
exist, survive, live, subsist(verb)
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
exist(Verb)
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.
Webster Dictionary
Exist(verb)
to be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual
Exist(verb)
to be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign
Exist(verb)
to live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land
Freebase
eXist
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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
I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
ISIS was not created by Islamic teachings, it was created by the United States ’ encouragement into other people’s countries seeking weapons of mass destruction that don’t exist, and destroying their societies and leaving the bitter taste in young people’s mouths.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924:
Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
Right now, these regulations exist in legal no-man's-land, it's incredibly unusual for a state to be suing another state. (The lawsuit) certainly was a surprise to me given the movement at the federal level, which seems to be in favor of allowing states to experiment.
We will set the agenda for the rest for the year, we are not yet negotiating the topic of claims even if there is a recognition on both sides that these exist.
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- bestaanAfrikaans
- عاش, يوجدArabic
- існавацьBelarusian
- съществувамBulgarian
- existirCatalan, Valencian
- být, existovatCzech
- eksistereDanish
- bestehen, existierenGerman
- υπάρχω, υφίσταμαιGreek
- ekzistiEsperanto
- existirSpanish
- olla olemassa, ollaFinnish
- vera, vera til, finnastFaroese
- existerFrench
- bí annIrish
- existirGalician
- मौजूदHindi
- létezik, él, vanHungarian
- գոյություն ունենալ, լինելArmenian
- existerInterlingua
- existarIdo
- esistereItalian
- 存在するJapanese
- មានKhmer
- 存在, 하다, 존재하다Korean
- exto, exsistere, sum, exsto, consto, existereLatin
- eksistēt, pastāvētLatvian
- bestaanDutch
- eksistereNorwegian
- egzystować, istniećPolish
- existirPortuguese
- kayQuechua
- existaRomanian
- существоватьRussian
- póstojati, egzistírati, bȉvstvovati, òpstojatiSerbo-Croatian
- jestvovaťSlovak
- existeraSwedish
- varoluşTurkish
- існуватиUkrainian
- tồn tại, 存在Vietnamese
- dabinönVolapük
- 存在Chinese
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