human being
noun/ˌhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋ/
Etymology
From human (adjective) + being (noun). The word human was originally an adjective, thus requiring a base noun.
Definitions
A person
A person; a large sapient, bipedal primate, with notably less hair than others of that order, of the species Homo sapiens.
- He began to reflect that in a few Minutes he might possibly deprive a human Being of Life, or might lose his own.
Any member of the genus Homo, including extinct species.
- As Australopithecus evolved into the first human being, Homo habilis, and then into the species, Homo sapiens, we have evolved as social beings
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for human being. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA