Usually means: Biological entity with conscious awareness.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word human being:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. human being: Merriam-Webster
  2. human being: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. human being: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. human being: Collins English Dictionary
  5. human being: Vocabulary.com
  6. human-being: Wordnik
  7. human being: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. human being: Wiktionary
  9. human being: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. human being: Dictionary.com
  11. Human Being (album), Human Being (disambiguation), Human being: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. human being: Rhymezone
  13. human being: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. human being: FreeDictionary.org
  15. human being: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. human being: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. human being: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. human being: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. human being: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. human being: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. human being: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (human being)

▸ noun:  A person; a large sapient, bipedal primate, with notably less hair than others of that order, of the species Homo sapiens.
▸ noun:  Any member of the genus Homo, including extinct species.
▸ noun:  (taxonomic) Homo sapiens sapiens.

Similar:
human, man, homo, homo sapiens, sapiens, primate, hominid, man ape, pithecanthropoid, simian, more...

Opposite:
non-human, animal, creature, inhuman, alien

Types:
man, woman, person, child, adult, teenager, infant, elderly person, beggar, more...

Phrases:
How to Be a Human Being, I Am Not a Human Being II, I Am Not a Human Being, The Original Human Being, a human being, more...

Adjectives:
homo, protohuman, human, prehuman, man, hominid, neanderthal, og, habiline, archaic, protoplast

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Similar:
human, man, homo, homo sapiens, sapiens, primate, hominid, man ape, pithecanthropoid, simian, more...

Opposite:
non-human, animal, creature, inhuman, alien

Types:
man, woman, person, child, adult, teenager, infant, elderly person, beggar, more...

Phrases:
How to Be a Human Being, I Am Not a Human Being II, I Am Not a Human Being, The Original Human Being, a human being, studying of a human being, a human being regarded as an individual, more...

Adjectives:
homo, protohuman, human, prehuman, man, hominid, neanderthal, og, habiline, archaic, protoplast



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