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human being

American  

noun

  1. any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.

  2. a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species.

    living conditions not fit for human beings; a very generous human being.
human being British  

noun

  1. a member of any of the races of Homo sapiens; person; man, woman, or child

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Etymology

Origin of human being

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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And this wondrous Human being calls himself but a machine, Classed among the things he fashions From the metals earth doth yield.

From In the Land of Dakota A Little Book of Dakota Verse by Winstead, Huldah Lucile

Resolved, That by Human Rights, we mean natural Rights, in contradistinction to conventional usages, and that because Woman is a Human being, she, therefore, has Human Rights. 2d.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Human being there was none to reply; and the inclemency of the night had driven the wandering animals to the habitations they had usurped.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Human and Divine intermingled in every Human being, 853-u.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

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