That which exists individually (in the most general sense, in fact or in idea); that which is or may… In unemphatic use. Usually modified by an…

transferred and figurative.

Something that exists or is conceived as existing.

Used as an indeterminate noun (comparable to thing). As a count noun: a thing, affair, subject, etc., in the most general sense (cf. 1a)…

Philosophy. An entity; a thing which exists. Obsolete.

concrete. Something that is; an existence, entity. Now restricted to spiritual or immaterial entities.

Being, existence, as opposed to non-existence; the existence, as distinguished from the qualities or relations, of anything.

concrete. Something that exists; a being, an entity.

Something that exists; a being, an entity; = existence, n. 3a.

An existent person or thing.

= essence, n. in various senses. fifth essency = quintessence, n.

A person who or thing which exists.

That is or exists; existing (in the most abstract sense); also used substantively. (Introduced to represent Germ. seiend, as expressing pure being in…

= thing, n.1 (in various senses).