HUMAN BEINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human beings mean? 

• HUMAN BEINGS (noun)
  The noun HUMAN BEINGS has 1 sense:

1. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

  Familiarity information: HUMAN BEINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMAN BEINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All of the living human inhabitants of the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world

Context example:

she always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women

Hypernyms ("human beings" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

Meronyms (members of "human beings"):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

 Context examples 

But fashions are like human beings.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I did what human beings do instinctively when they are driven to utter extremity—looked for aid to one higher than man: the words "God help me!" burst involuntarily from my lips.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were human beings, then, upon the plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded if such a wretch as I felt pride.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He had previously made her the happiest of human beings, and now he had insulted—she knew not what to say, how to class, or how to regard it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A pre-clinical or clinical study in human beings in which individuals are assigned by an investigator based on a protocol to receive specific interventions.

(Intervention Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates.

(Digit, NCI Thesaurus)

Found in gastric mucosa of primates, including human beings and ferrets.

(Helicobacter, NCI Thesaurus)

This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the first study of its kind, Austrian researchers have tracked the movement of microplastics into human beings.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)