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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
ex·ist       [ig-zist] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used without object)
1.to have actual being; be: The world exists, whether you like it or not.
2.to have life or animation; live.
3.to continue to be or live: Belief in magic still exists.
4.to have being in a specified place or under certain conditions; be found; occur: Hunger exists in many parts of the world.
5.to achieve the basic needs of existence, as food and shelter: He's not living, he's merely existing.

[Origin: 1595–1605; < L ex(s)istere to exist, appear, emerge, equiv. to ex- ex-1 + sistere to stand]

ex·ist·er, noun

3. survive, persist, last, endure, stay, remain.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ex·ist       (ĭg-zĭst')  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   ex·ist·ed, ex·ist·ing, ex·ists
  1. To have actual being; be real.
  2. To have life; live: one of the worst actors that ever existed.
  3. To live at a minimal level; subsist: barely enough income on which to exist.
  4. To continue to be; persist: old customs that still exist in rural areas.
  5. To be present under certain circumstances or in a specified place; occur: "Wealth and poverty exist in every demographic category" (Thomas G. Exter).


[Latin existere, exsistere, to come forth, be manifest : ex-, ex- + sistere, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

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exist

verb
1. have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" 
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" 

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Exist

Ex*ist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing.] [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. exister. See Stand.]

1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. --Swift.

To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. --South.

2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.

Syn: See Be.

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