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Human being
//ˌhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋ// noun
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Noun
- 1 A person; a large sapient, bipedal primate, with notably less hair than others of that order, of the species Homo sapiens.
"He began to reflect that in a few Minutes he might possibly deprive a human Being of Life, or might lose his own."
- 2 any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage wordnet
- 3 Any member of the genus Homo, including extinct species.
"The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools."
Etymology
From human (adjective) + being (noun). The word human was originally an adjective, thus requiring a base noun.
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