being

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

being [being beings] BrE [ˈbiːɪŋ] NAmE [ˈbiːɪŋ] noun
1. uncountable existence
•The Irish Free State came into being in 1922.
•A new era was brought into being by the war.
see also ↑well-being
2. countable a living creature
•human beings
•a strange being from another planet
3. uncountable (formal)your mind and all of your feelings
•I hated him with my whole being.
see also ↑be _v.

Example Bank:
•I work on the assumption that people are rational beings.
•the rights of all human beings
•Dolphins are highly intelligent beings.
•Human beings learned to control fire around 100 000 years ago.
•They claim to have proof that alien beings have landed on Earth.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  organism, beingness, existence
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  nonexistence, nonentity, nonbeing