BE

vi to exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

2. be ·vi to signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.

3. be ·vi to take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on thursday.

4. be ·vi to exist in a certain manner or relation, — whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, — a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.