Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A human.
Wiktionary
- n. A person; a large sapient, bipedal primate, with notably less hair than others of that order, of the species Homo sapiens.
- n. Another, extinct member of the genus Homo.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
Examples
“The love of another human being in an intimate relationship sort of rubbed off on you, making the very touch of your skin anathema to the White Court.”
“They disappeared through the doorway and found themselves on Marsa planet where no human being had ever set foot before.”
“And it was the voice of a human being -- a known, loved, well-remembered voice -- that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe, wildly, eerily, urgently.”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
““No human being would willingly wear pants that zipped off at the knee—no normal human being—unless they had rocket-thrusters in place of their detachable feet.””
Simon & Schuster: Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
“A god may not consider the welfare of the human being he rides—”
“Another rush for me was just hanging out with Sara Gilbert, who is a remarkably deep human being and a talented actor and comic.”
“In retrospect, the operation looks like a mind-brain experiment: put the brain of a human being into a state of biological standstill, deprive it of blood, and flatten the EEG—will the subject report any experiences?”
“But when I think back on those first months, I think of that fence, and a circle of young men closing in on me, and Lester Bargus with his freckles and his brown, square-cut hair, sucking spit back into his mouth after he had begun to drool with the joy of striking out at another human being from the security of the pack.”
“That is partly because afghani is the name of the currency: about 5,000 afghanis are worth one dollar, while Afghan has the high value placed on any human being unless you are referring to the rug or the hound.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘human being’.
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AFCO - fundamental rights
as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
academic freedom, access, asylum, bargaining, citizen, cloning, cohesion, collective agreement, collective bargai..., confidentiality, conflict of interest, constraint and 357 more...
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ENVI - Collocations HIJKL
habitable climate, habitable space, habitat alteration, habitat destruction, habitat diversity, habitat fragmenta..., habitat of organisms, habitat of the bi..., habitat protection, habitat requirement, habitat selection, habitat structure and 3456 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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beautiful words.
the, known, universe, connection, touch, possibility, cataclysm, revolution, circumvolution, evolution, logic, winter and 71 more...
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TT1 Lesson 1
Busch Gardens, parrot, coast, heart, nest, nestled, spectacular, Africa, fashioned, century, excitement, excited and 31 more...
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