human beings
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- noun
- /ˈhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋz/
:
seres humanos
- In the midst of the ruins, thousands of human beings lie buried.
- nature of human beings
- rights of human beings
- fellow human beings
Because they are also free human beings like myself.
- Because they are also free human beings like myself.
- It's very, very normal for human beings to question things.
- The scariest thing in the world to human beings is regret.
- I'm here to teach you as human beings in the best way I can.
- Kaya Danga, one of my favorite human beings on the planet.
- He's saying for human beings what is good for us.
- You will see human beings with regret in their eye.
- And I think that we as human beings should devote some resources.
- Human beings are good and human beings are kind, right?
- It's what we're instinctively drawn to as human beings, and that doesn't change.
- That's just, that's a state that human beings feel on a fundamental level.
- All we have to do as human beings turn up.
- But it was he's a great human being hard motherfucker.
Examples
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To know that we are all human beings!
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Both nuclear war and ecological destruction threaten all human beings on Earth, plus many other life forms.
Academic text (1991) -
So I took him up to my place, like any human being would.
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It's very, very normal for human beings to question things.
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We as human beings are built to work.
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You should get the doors fixed so that normal human beings can shut them.
Fiction book (1990) -
And again, as human beings, we all desire that.
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There's something within us as human beings that knows the answer.
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And that's the power of community, of human beings, social glue.
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We as human beings are capable of great compassion and kindness.
Synonyms
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All the people who live on Earth
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All people on Earth viewed as a single group
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All people in the world considered as a group
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Human beings in a group, for example in a country
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1.5
All people who live on Earth as one group
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All people as one group
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All people as one group
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The group that includes all living human beings
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The scientific name for the modern human group, different from extinct species like Neanderthals
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A group of humans that includes all living people
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun phrase where 'human' modifies 'being' to denote a person; the overall meaning 'people' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents. This construction and logic are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Human beings comes from the words human (a person) and being (a living creature). The image is 'beings who are human', so it simply means 'all people'.