to come into being
- phrasal verb
- /kʌm ˈɪntu ˈbiːɪŋ/
- The new park came into being as a result of the community's efforts to promote green spaces.
- a new organization came into being
- organization came into being
- state came into being
Suppose that a hostile AGI came into being tomorrow.
- Suppose that a hostile AGI came into being tomorrow.
- Without them, this program would never have come into being.
- This is a natural, robust, generic way that complexity can come into being.
- We experience time as though it's not a fixed object that's merely coming into view, but it's something that's coming into being as it's experienced.
- Well, and I began to look at how did money come into being?
- Are any of these ways of of coming into being applicable?
- It doesn't come into being, it doesn't change, it just sits there.
- We've seen so and the whole system doesn't come into being because I'm measuring it.
- They're they're just coming into being, right?
Examples
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The basic idea is that organizations come into being by themselves.
Academic text (1991) -
But we can't go too far forward, because we don't know what new things will come into being.
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From the moment she came into being, she brought something with her.
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All right, well, then, please explain how something as complex as the human eye simply just comes into being.
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You are neither good nor evil; you have come into being without any purpose.
Academic text (1999) -
Will they, or will they not, come into being, and if they do, will they save us?
Fiction book (1999) -
Few informed observers doubt that it will come into being in some form or another.
Academic text (1992) -
War and the passions that give rise to war can only come into being once we are in society.
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The question of precisely how stars come into being is crucial to modern astronomy.
Academic text (1991) -
Some ten thousand years ago, the Neolithic and then the Classical civilizations came into being.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
To come into view or become visible
To become known or start to exist, for example as an idea
To create a group or organization
Start to exist or happen
To start or create something
To begin to exist or start to develop
To begin to develop and become clear in shape or idea
Antonyms
How Formed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to begin to exist' is directly derivable from the parts: 'come' (arrive/occur) + 'into' (indicating change or movement into a state) + 'being' (existence). This compositional pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would reasonably infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Come into being paints a simple picture: something that was not there then comes into being, like a person stepping into a room and suddenly existing. So, it means 'to begin to exist'.