Definition of exists Exists
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What does exists mean?
Part of speech
🔤- exists, verb, present, 3rd person singular of exist (infinitive).
WordNet
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| exist - have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" | ||
| be | ||
| come come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June" | ||
| preexist exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time; "Did this condition pre-exist?" | ||
| kick about, knock about, kick around treat badly; abuse; "They won't have me to kick around any more!" | ||
| coexist exist together | ||
| indwell to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | ||
| obtain, prevail, hold come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" | ||
| lie in, consist, dwell, lie be in confinement for childbirth | ||
| imperil, jeopardise, endanger, jeopardize, peril, menace, threaten pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" | ||
| flow cover or swamp with water | ||
| distribute give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams" | ||
| inhabit, dwell be present in; "sweet memories inhabit this house" | ||
| exist - 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" | ||
| survive, live, subsist | ||
| live on, last, survive, hold out, endure, hold up, live, go persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days" | ||
| breathe draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring" | ||
| freewheel, drift coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- exist (v. i.)
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. - exist (v. i.)
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign. - exist (v. i.)
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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exist
To have existence.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.]
Part of speech
🔤- exist, verb, present, 1st person singular of exist (infinitive).
- exist, verb (infinitive).
