# human being

Pronunciation: say "hyoo-muhn BEE-ing" /ˌhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋ/

## Noun

1. A person: a member of the species Homo sapiens, the large, sapient, two-legged primate with far less body hair than other primates.
   - Simple: A person. Humans are large, intelligent animals that walk on two legs and have little body hair.
   - _Every human being deserves to be treated with dignity._
   - _Human beings need sleep as surely as they need food and water._
2. Any member of the genus Homo, including extinct species as well as modern humans.
   - Simple: Any member of the group of species that includes us and early humans who died out long ago.
   - _The stone tools in the cave were made by human beings who lived long before our own species appeared._
   - _A Neanderthal was a human being too, even though it belonged to a different species from ours._

## Origin

From the adjective human + the noun being; human was originally an adjective, so it needed a noun after it.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/human-being (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).