Associations to the word «Exist»

Wiktionary

EXIST, verb. To be; have existence; have being or reality

Dictionary definition

EXIST, verb. Have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?".
EXIST, verb. Support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats