exist
US: /ɪɡˈzɪst/
UK: /ɛɡzˈɪst/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
exist /ig'zist/- nội động từ
- tồn tại, sống
- hiện có
Advanced English dictionary
+ verb [V]1 (not used in the progressive tenses) to be real; to be present in a place or situation: Does life exist on other planets? + The problem only exists in your head, Jane. + Few of these monkeys still exist in the wild. + A temple existed here hundreds of years ago.
2 ~ (on sth) to live, especially in a difficult situation or with very little money: We existed on a diet of rice and very little else. + They can't exist on the money he's earning.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 be, continue, prevail, endure, abide; live, breathe:
Some believe that the universe exists only in our imagination.
2 survive, subsist, eke out a living or an existence, stay alive, get by or along:
How can the family exist only on his pension?
3 occur, happen, be found, be present, remain, persist; obtain, prevail:
A two-foot gap exists between the wall and the roof. 'Status quo' refers to the circumstances that exist.
Collocation
ADV.
actually, really
Do these creatures really exist?
| already, still
Few of these monkeys still exist in the wild.
| currently | independently
He argued that ideas do not exist independently of the language that expresses them.
VERB + EXIST
be known to
the enormous volcanoes now known to exist on Mars
| continue to | cease to
Concise dictionary
exists|existed|existingɪg'zɪstverb
+have an existence, be extant
+support oneself
