human being
hyoo-muhn BEE-ing/ˌhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋ/
Pluralhuman beings
- 1A person. Humans are large, intelligent animals that walk on two legs and have little body hair.
She is a kind and honest human being.
No human being could lift that rock alone.
Similarperson, human, individual
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- 2Any member of the group of species that includes us and early humans who died out long ago.
The people who made these old stone tools were human beings, but not the same kind as us.
Long ago, more than one kind of human being lived on Earth at the same time.
Similarhuman
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Origin
From human and being, because human was first only an adjective.