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human being

noun

  1. any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
  2. a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species:

    living conditions not fit for human beings; a very generous human being.



human being

noun

  1. a member of any of the races of Homo sapiens; person; man, woman, or child


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Word History and Origins

Origin of human being1

First recorded in 1855–60

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Example Sentences

Our animators are very excited to be drawing the innards of a human being.

What was this human being fighting for everywhere but inside a ring?

She assured me he was a decent human being and the love of her life.

But they gave themselves away with a very strange sentence—their only effort to acknowledge me as a human being.

Why not give her the opportunity to be an actual human being versus a celebrity?

Every human being behind that absurdly inadequate wall was exposed to constant and equal danger.

This, they said, was no human being like themselves; such hellish practices could have but one origin.

And every human being born upon the world represents a power of work that, rightly directed, more than supplies his wants.

Seven o'clock in the morning is too early for any rational human being to be herded into a factory at the call of a steam whistle.

As far as you know there isn't a human being living who has any claim to your services by reason of blood relationship.

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