exist

From French exister, from Latin existō (“to stand forth, come forth, arise, be”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”), caus. of stare (“to stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist.

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

exist (third-person singular simple present exists, present participle existing, simple 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, page 12:

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

   • 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, 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, page 55:

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

   • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:

     While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.

• be; See also Thesaurus:exist

• exist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• exist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• exits, sixte

• IPA^(key): [eɡˈzist]

exist

1. first-person singular present indicative of exista: I exist
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of exista