Be

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

II. Be ·vi To Signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.

III. Be ·vi To take place; to Happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.

IV. Be ·vi To exist in a certain manner or relation, — whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, — a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.

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