TO BE meaning: Existence or state of existing

We found 18 dictionaries that define the word to be:

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to be: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
to-be: Merriam-Webster
-to-be: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
to-be: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
-to-be, -to-be: Collins English Dictionary
to-be: Wordnik
to-be: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
-to-be, to-be: Wiktionary
-to-be: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
to-be: Infoplease Dictionary
to-be, to be: Dictionary.com
To Be (Ayumi Hamasaki song), To Be (song), To be: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
to be: FreeDictionary.org
To be, to-be: TheFreeDictionary.com

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to be: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (To Be)

▸ noun:  "To Be" (stylized as "TO BE") is a song by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki.
▸ noun:  ("be yourself") the 1997 debut Mandarin-language pop album by Hong Kong singer Karen Mok.
▸ noun:  a Canadian animated short film released in 1990 and directed by John Weldon, who also composed its music.
▸ noun:  To be is a copula, a word used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement).

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not, is not, are not, am not, isn't, aren't

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