Exist Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

exist v
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]

Exist Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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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* All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. - George Bernard Shaw

* All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. - John Stuart Mill

* I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. - Kahlil Gibran


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