Definitions for being

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being be·ing

Spelling: [bee-ing]

IPA: /ˈbi ɪŋ/

Being is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in being (begin).

Definitions for being

noun

1. the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
2. conscious, mortal existence; life:
3. substance or nature:
4. something that exists:
5. a living thing:
6. a human being; person:
7. (initial capital letter) God.
8. Philosophy. that which has actuality either materially or in idea. absolute existence in a complete or perfect state, lacking no essential characteristic; essence.

conjunction

1. Nonstandard. since; because; considering that (often followed by as, as how, or that):

auxiliary verb

1. (used with the present participle of another verb to form the progressive tense):
2. (used with the present participle or infinitive of the principal verb to indicate future action):
3. (used with the past participle of another verb to form the passive voice):
4. (used in archaic or literary constructions with some intransitive verbs to form the perfect tense):

verb (used without object)

1. to exist or live:
2. to take place; happen; occur:
3. to occupy a place or position:
4. to continue or remain as before:
5. to belong; attend; befall:
6. (used as a copula to connect the subject with its predicate adjective, or predicate nominative, in order to describe, identify, or amplify the subject):
7. (used as a copula to introduce or form interrogative or imperative sentences):

Origin of being

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at be, -ing¹

Examples for being

Meantime the stronghold of Mauburn's optimism was being desperately stormed.

To Billy Brue was allotted the easiest as being the most probable route.

In 2011 LGBT media outlet Queerty took the app to task for allegedly deleting accounts that made reference to being trans.

However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.

"Marvellous, indeed, is the mystery of our being," exclaimed Anaxagoras.

Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?

He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.

To do so is to deify a celebrity for being what we need them to be, while willfully ignoring who they really are.

That being impossible, none other was graceful; hence none other was to be considered.

If a servant complained of being abused, his master had no power to retain him.