animate being

Questions about animate being

What does animate being mean?

animate being means "a living organism characterized by voluntary movement".

What is another word for animate being?

Close synonyms include animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is animate being a common word?

animate being is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.