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Meaning of 'exist' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Exist [ v. i.]
- To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
- To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
- To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.

Meaning of 'exist' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . exist [ v]
Meaning (1):
- support oneself
Example in sentence:
  • Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?;
  • he could barely exist on such a low wage;
  • Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
Meaning (2):
- have an existence, be extant
Example in sentence:
  • Is there a God?

Nearby Words:

exiccate exiccation exigence exigencies exigency exigendary exigent exigenter exigible exiguity

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