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So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
James Dickey

Meaning of "human being" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HUMAN BEING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUMAN BEING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Human being is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HUMAN BEING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

human being

Human

Modern humans are the only extant members of the hominin clade, a branch of great apes characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion; manual dexterity and increased tool use; and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies. Early hominids, such as the australopithecines who had more apelike brains and skulls, are less often thought of or referred to as "human" than hominids of the genus Homo some of whom used fire, occupied much of Eurasia, and gave rise to anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Africa about 200,000 years ago where they began to exhibit evidence of behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago and migrated out in successive waves to occupy all but the smallest, driest, and coldest lands; and permanently manned bases in Antarctica, on offshore platforms, and orbiting the Earth. The spread of humans and their large and increasing population has had a destructive impact on large areas of the environment and millions of native species worldwide.

Definition of human being in the English dictionary

The definition of human being in the dictionary is a member of any of the races of Homo sapiens; person; man, woman, or child.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUMAN BEING

human
human capital
human cloning
human ecology
human embryonic stem cell
human engineering
human error
Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority
human genome
human growth hormone
human immunodeficiency virus
human interest
human interest story
human megaphone
human nature
human papilloma virus
human race
human resource management
human resources
human rights

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUMAN BEING

ageing
anti-ageing
being
blueing
call into being
canoeing
dyeing
fellow being
for the time being
horseshoeing
inbeing
nonbeing
seeing
sightseeing
snowshoeing
Supreme Being
tie-dyeing
unbeing
unseeing
wellbeing

Synonyms and antonyms of human being in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HUMAN BEING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «human being» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of human being
human · man · mortal · person · woman

Translation of «human being» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HUMAN BEING

Find out the translation of human being to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of human being from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «human being» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

人类
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ser humano
570 millions of speakers

English

human being
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इंसान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إِنْسَانٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

человек
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ser humano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মানুষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

être humain
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

manusia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mensch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

人間
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

인간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Manungsa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

con người
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மனிதர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मानवी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

insan oğlu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

essere umano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

istota ludzka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

людська істота
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ființă umană
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άνθρωπος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mens
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

människa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

menneske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of human being

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUMAN BEING»

The term «human being» is very widely used and occupies the 20.422 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUMAN BEING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «human being» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «human being» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about human being

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10 QUOTES WITH «HUMAN BEING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word human being.
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Marcus Allen
That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.
2
Scott Baio
I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.
3
Franz Beckenbauer
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
4
Mary J. Blige
So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.
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Ursula Burns
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Italo Calvino
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
7
Dyan Cannon
I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.
8
Caleb Carr
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
9
Ben Daniels
I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.
10
James Dickey
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMAN BEING»

Discover the use of human being in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to human being and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief ...
A Human Being Died That Night is about the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa and sees a white man exploring his psyche with a member of the race he tried to annihilate.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, 2013
2
Brand New Human Being
When your compass is taken away, how do you navigate?
Emily Jeanne Miller, 2012
3
How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man’s Quest for ...
For the first time in paperback, How I Became a Human Being is O’Brien’s account of his struggles to lead an independent life despite a lifelong disability.
Mark O'Brien, 2003
4
A Philosophy of the Human Being
This book is an accessible text that explores what it means to be human.
Julian A. Davies, 2009
5
Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective
Optimal Human Being addresses two questions: how can individuals best integrate the different facets of themselves to achieve "optimal human being", and how can researchers best integrate the different levels of analysis within the human ...
Kennon M. Sheldon, 2004
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Human Being in Depth: A Scientific Approach to Religion
The first recipient of the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration (1986) suggests that people can only deal with the modern world if they have a philosophy that recognizes both religion and science as paths to truth and unity.
Swami Ranganathananda, Elva Linnéa Nelson, 1991
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What is the Human Being?
In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant’s philosophy of human nature – which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick Frierson assesses Kant’s theories and examines his critics.
Patrick R. Frierson, 2013
8
The Awakening Human Being
The promise of this book is that it shows readers how to find a way out of suffering by waking up to the nature of reality and the nature of mind to find the peace and happiness they seek in the present moment.
Barbara Berger, 2011
9
The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man
He explores how Jesus' self-referential phrase came to be universalized as the "Human Being" or "Truly Human One".
Walter Wink, 2002
10
Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and ...
It traces a sweeping trajectory from what Brian Rotman calls the 'lettered self, ' associated with alphabetic inscription and the codex printed book, to the subject as distributed assemblage associated with network culture.
Brian Rotman, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUMAN BEING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term human being is used in the context of the following news items.
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Donald Trump 'the most in-demand human being ... on the planet …
“He is the most in-demand human being right now on the planet,” he said. Mr. Cohen also fired back at Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
2
Virtual human teases out mental health secrets from patients | Stuff …
"We never say everything that we're thinking and everything that we know to another human being, for a lot of different reasons," says William ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
3
Facebook's version of Siri is an actual human being
So what will set Facebook's offering apart? It will be an actual, live human being. Instead of connecting users to an automated smart assistant ... «Komando, Jul 15»
4
Helen Mead: Waiting in line for a human being to finally answer the …
While not as serious or life threatening as MRSA, it is, however, extremely stress-inducing and incapacitating. I became afflicted earlier in the week when I ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Jul 15»
5
James Franco's latest role is 'the worst human being he's ever played'
James Franco has opened up about the difficult relationship he had with his latest role, a man he has dubbed “the worst human being I've ever ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
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Bill Ball III remembered as 'really nice human being'
He fought a good fight, but in the end, Bill Ball III just ran out of gas. Ball, 44, of Norwalk, died Thursday at The Cleveland Clinic after a long ... «Norwalk Reflector, Jul 15»
7
'He's the worst human being I've ever played'
James Franco admits he had "mixed feelings" about accepting the role of Christian Longo, a man who was put on the FBI's Most Wanted ... «Dudley News, Jul 15»
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“When a human being suffers, we join in solidarity”
“When a human being suffers, we join in solidarity”. July 10, 2015 by onlinecitizen in Letters · 38 Comments. By Nicole Ling. I'm glad the torture of Amos Yee has ... «The Online Citizen, Jul 15»
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Letter: No human being has right to kill babies in the womb
We human beings seem to have forgotten that God is God! We also have forgotten that his 10 Commandments were not mere suggestions but ... «Quad-Cities Online, Jul 15»
10
Newton Police: Alleged Drunk Driver Says Another 'Regular Human
When questioned who was driving the vehicle, he said “a regular human being.” He was unable to give police a name, description, sex or any ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»

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