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being definition

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This page has 8 definitions of being in English and Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic. Being is a verb, noun and conjunction. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

English being definition

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Etymology

Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English being; see be + -ing.

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Verb

being

  1. present participle of be

Noun

being (countable and uncountable, plural beings)

  1. A living creature.
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, page 126:
      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.
  2. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
    • 1608-1634, John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia
      Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being.
    • 1935, Samuel Beckett, Watt:
      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.
  3. (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
  4. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
  5. (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.

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Conjunction

being

  1. Given that; since.

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Scottish Gaelic being definition

Noun

being f (genitive singular beinge, plural beingean)

  1. bench, form