exist

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English

Etymology

From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.

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exist (third-person singular simple present exists, present participle existing, simple past and past participle existed)

  1. (intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality
    • 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 12:
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    • 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 19:
      […] , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
    • 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 55:
      […] , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.
    • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:
      While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.

Conjugation

Conjugation of exist
infinitive (to) exist
present tense past tense
1st-person singular exist existed
2nd-person singular exist, existest† existed, existedst†
3rd-person singular exists, existeth† existed
plural exist
subjunctive exist existed
imperative exist —
participles existing existed

†Archaic or obsolete.

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Pronunciation

Verb

exist

  1. first-person singular present indicative of exista: I exist
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of exista
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