Definitions for exist
ɪgˈzɪstex·ist

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. exist, be(verb)

   have an existence, be extant

   "Is there a God?"

2. 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(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. 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(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Exist(verb)

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

2. Exist(verb)

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

3. Exist(verb)

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

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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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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, exsistĕre—ex, out, sistĕre, to make to stand.]

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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. exits

2. sixte

How to pronounce exist?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Benjamin Franklin:

   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.

2. Abdullah Faaruuq:

   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.

3. 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.

4. Sam Kamin:

   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.

5. Gustavo Machin:

   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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