- 1[uncountable] existence The state of Texas came into being in 1845. A new era was brought into being by the war. see well-being
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- 2[countable] a living creature human beings a strange being from another planet
- 3[uncountable] (formal) your mind and all of your feelings I hated him with my whole being. see be
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