1. being(n = noun.state) beingness, existence - the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"
is a kind of state
has particulars: actuality, eternity, timeless existence, timelessness, preexistence, coexistence, subsistence, presence, life, aliveness, animation, life, living, life, transcendence, transcendency, possibility, possibleness
Antonym: nonbeing
Derived form verb be4
2. being(n = noun.tops) organism - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently;
is a kind of animate thing, living thing
has parts: cell, body part
has particulars: benthos, dwarf, heterotroph, parent, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna, flora, plant, plant life, native, recombinant, conspecific, carrier, denizen, amphidiploid, diploid, haploid, heteroploid, polyploid, animalcule, animalculum, micro-organism, microorganism, aerobe, anaerobe, cross, crossbreed, hybrid, polymorph, congenator, congener, congeneric, relative, plankton, nekton, parasite, host, commensal, myrmecophile, eucaryote, eukaryote, procaryote, prokaryote, zooid, clon, clone, atavist, throwback, individual, mascot, mutant, mutation, sport, variation, postdiluvian, sitter, stander, utterer, vocaliser, vocalizer, fungus, nonvascular organism, relict, saprophyte, saprophytic organism, saprobe, katharobe
Derived form verb be11
Existing. [1913 Webster]
" Being was formerly used where we now use having. “Being to go to a ball in a few days.”
" In modern usage, is, are, was or were being, with a past participle following (as built, made, etc.) indicates the process toward the completed result expressed by the participle. The form is or was building, in this passive signification, is idiomatic, and, if free from ambiguity, is commonly preferable to the modern is or was being built. The last form of speech is, however, sufficiently authorized by approved writers. The older expression was is, or was, a-building or in building." [1913 Webster]
"A man who is being strangled." [1913 Webster]
"While the article on Burns was being written." [1913 Webster]
"Fresh experience is always being gained." [1913 Webster]
1. Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. [1913 Webster]
"In Him we live, and move, and have our being." [1913 Webster]
2. That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings. [1913 Webster]
"What a sweet being is an honest mind !" [1913 Webster]
"A Being of infinite benevolence and power." [1913 Webster]
3. Lifetime; mortal existence. [1913 Webster]
"Claudius, thou
Wast follower of his fortunes in his being." [1913 Webster]
4. An abode; a cottage. Wright. [1913 Webster]
"It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor." [1913 Webster]
Since; inasmuch as. [1913 Webster]
"And being you have
Declined his means, you have increased his malice." [1913 Webster]
being, n.
1 existence.
2 the nature or essence (of a person etc.) (his whole being revolted).
3 a human being.
4 anything that exists or is imagined.
Idiom:
in being existing.
N existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality, positiveness, fact, matter of fact, sober reality, truth, actual existence, presence, coexistence, stubborn fact, hard fact, not a dream, no joke, center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle, ontology, existing, existent, under the sun, in existence, extant, afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent, undestroyed, real, actual, positive, absolute, true, substantial, substantive, self-existing, self-existent, essential, well-founded, well-grounded, unideal, unimagined, not potential, authentic, actually, in fact, in point of fact, in reality, indeed, de facto, ipso facto, ens rationis, ergo sum cogito, thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?.
N substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.
animate being, come into being, extraterrestrial being, for the time being, human being, imaginary being, living being, mythical being, spiritual being, supernatural being, supreme being, time being