exist

1 have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: be]

2 support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn: survive, live, subsist]

English

Etymology

From ex(s)istere (to exist).

Pronunciation

Verb

1. to be; have existence; have being or reality

Synonyms

• be

Derived terms

• existence
• existent
• existential
• existentially

Translations

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

1. I exist

Exist may stand for:

• Exist Global is a software engineering services firm that develops, designs and delivers enterprise-class products and cutting-edge web applications for some of the world’s most successful businesses, including a number of Fortune 500 companies
• EXIST NASA proposed Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST)
• eXist, an open source database management system built on XML
• to exist, a verb. See existence.

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