different between exist vs existed

English

Etymology

From French exister, from Latin exist? (“to stand forth, come forth, arise, be”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”), caus. of stare (“to stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

exist (third-person singular simple present exists, present participle existing, simple past and past participle existed)

1. (intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality
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   • 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, ?ISBN, page 55:

     […] , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.

Synonyms

• be; See also Thesaurus:exist

Derived terms

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Translations

Further reading

• exist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• exits, sixte

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e??zist]

Verb

exist

1. first-person singular present indicative of exista: I exist
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of exista

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?st?d/

Verb

existed

1. simple past tense and past participle of exist