Meaning of being | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Be.
2. A living creature.
   countable, uncountable
3. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
   countable, uncountable
4. Because; since. Often used with as or that.
   as
5. Leng=gl.
6. the final aim apart from which nothing is of any real importance. This job isn't the be-all and end-all of existence. أهَم شَيئ في الدُّنياا крайна цел tudo celý smysl, podstata, první a poslední das Ein und Alles alfa og omega το άλφα και το ωμέγα serlo todo ülim eesmärk مهمترین چیز؛ عامل عمده lopullinen tarkoitus le but suprême de הַגוֹרֵם הַחָשוּב בְּיוֹתֵר कोई वास्तविक महत्व का नहीं होना sveukupnost végső cél tujuan utama endanlegt takmark cosa più importante, essenziale 最も重要なもの 궁극적인 것 pa...
7. That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
   countable, uncountable
8. The state or quality of having existence: technical advances that have only recently come into being. See Synonyms at existence.
9. One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
   countable, uncountable
10. The totality of all things that exist: theologians who hold that the mind of God is the source of all being.
11. An abode; a cottage.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. A person: "The artist after all is a solitary being" (Virginia Woolf).
13. All the qualities constituting one that exists; the essence: the very being of human nature.
14. the state or fact of existing; existence
15. essential nature; self: she put her whole being into the part.
16. something that exists or is thought to exist, esp something that cannot be assigned to any category: a being from outer space.
17. a person; human being

Equivalents

Examples

“Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.”

“1608-1634, John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being.”

“For the service to be considered was not the service of one servant, but of two servants, and even of three servants, and even of an infinity of servants, of whom the first could not out till the second up, nor the second up till the third in, nor the third in till the first out, nor the first out till the third in, nor the third in till the second up, nor the second up till the first out, every going, every being, every coming consisting with a being and a coming, a coming and a going, a going and a being, nay with all the beings and all the comings, with all the comings and all the goings, with all the goings and all the beings, of all the servants that had ever served Mr. Knott, of all the servants that ever would serve Mr. Knott.”

“The written word, he often argued, could only ever be a low-fidelity reproduction of the fullness of being; any text was ultimately humbled by the reality that it sought to represent.”

“It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.”

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