| Main Entry: | be |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist |
Synonyms: |
abide, act, be alive, breathe, continue, do, endure, go on, have being, have place, hold, inhabit, last, live, move, obtain, persist, prevail, remain, rest, stand, stay, subsist, survive |
| Main Entry: | be |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen |
Synonyms: |
befall, come about, come to pass, occur, take place, transpire |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence |
Synonyms: |
actuality, animation, journey, life, living, presence, reality, subsistence, vitality, world |
Antonyms: |
deadness |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essential nature |
Synonyms: |
character, entity, essence, essentia, essentiality, individuality, marrow, personality, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance, texture |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate object |
Synonyms: |
animal, beast, body, conscious thing, creature, entity, human, human being, individual, living thing, mortal, organism, person, personage, soul, thing |
Antonyms: |
abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate being; mammal |
Synonyms: |
beast, being, brute, bum*, creature, critter, invertebrate, living thing, mutt, pet, stray, varmint, vertebrate, wild thing |
Antonyms: |
mineral, plant |
| Main Entry: | as |
| Part of Speech: | conjunction |
| Definition: | in the way that; to a degree |
Synonyms: |
acting as, being, by its nature, comparatively, equally, essentially, for instance, functioning as, in the manner that, in the same manner with, just as, just for, like, serving as, similarly, such as |
| Notes: | use 'like' when no verb follows; use 'as' when a clause follows (which has a subject and a verb) |
| Main Entry: | as |
| Part of Speech: | conjunction |
| Definition: | because |
Synonyms: |
as long as, being, cause, considering, for, for the reason that, inasmuch as, now, seeing that, since, whereas |
| Main Entry: | as |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | in the role of |
Synonyms: |
being, in the character of, under the name of |
| Main Entry: | because |
| Part of Speech: | conjuction, preposition |
| Definition: | on account of |
Synonyms: |
as, as a result of, as long as, as things go, being, by cause of, by reason of, by virtue of, considering, due to, for, for the reason that, for the sake of, in as much as, in behalf of, in that, in the interest of, in view of, now that, on the grounds that, over, owing to, seeing, since, thanks to, through, whereas |