beingとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English being; see be + -ing.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːɪŋ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbiɪŋ/, /ˈbiŋ/
• 韻: -iːɪŋ, -ɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: be‧ing

動詞

being

1. present participle of be

名詞

being (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 beings)

1. A living creature.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, page 126:

     Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.

2. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
   • 1608-1634, John Webster (かつ perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia

     Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt

     For the service to be considered was not the service of one servant, but of two servants, and even of three servants, and even of an infinity of servants, of whom the first could not out till the second up, nor the second up till the third in, nor the third in till the first out, nor the first out till the third in, nor the third in till the second up, nor the second up till the first out, every going, every being, every coming consisting with a being and a coming, a coming and a going, a going and a being, nay with all the beings and all the comings, with all the comings and all the goings, with all the goings and all the beings, of all the servants that had ever served Mr. Knott, of all the servants that ever would serve Mr. Knott.

3. (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially または in concept).
4. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
5. (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
   • 1712 December 5, Richard Steele, “MONDAY, November 24, 1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 544; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.

同意語

• (a living creature): See also Thesaurus:creature
• (the state または fact of existence): See also Thesaurus:existence

派生語

接続詞

being

1. Given that; since.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     , New York Review Books 2001, p.280:

     ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].

同意語

• as, because, seeing that; see also Thesaurus:because

派生語

• being that

参照

• “being”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “being” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "being" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
• "being" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

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