exist

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪɡˈzɪst/

Verb

exist (exists, present participle existing; 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 978-1-936213-02-3, page 12:

     Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]

   • 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, 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 978-1-936213-02-3, page 55:

     […] , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.

Synonyms

• be; See also Thesaurus:exist

Translations

• French: exister
• German: bestehen, existieren
• Italian: esistere
• Portuguese: existir
• Russian: существова́ть
• Spanish: existir

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