| what is a being?
being (PERSON) [Show phonetics]
noun [C or U]
a person or thing that exists or the state of existing:
A nuclear war would kill millions of living beings.
Strange beings from outer space are still a popular subject for sci-fi films.
We do not know exactly how life first came into being (= began to exist.)
so I still contend that a single celled undivided fertilized human ovum is a human BEING because it is definatley existing. |