Human being

//ˌhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage wordnet
  3. 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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