EXIST


Meaning of EXIST in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪgzɪst ]

( exists, existing, existed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If something exists , it is present in the world as a real thing.

He thought that if he couldn’t see something, it didn’t exist...

Research opportunities exist in a wide range of pure and applied areas of entomology...

VERB : no cont , V , V

2.

To exist means to live, especially under difficult conditions or with very little food or money.

I was barely existing.

...the problems of having to exist on unemployment benefit.

VERB : V , V on n

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