human beings

Questions about human beings

What does human beings mean?

human beings means "all of the living human inhabitants of the earth".

What is another word for human beings?

Close synonyms include world, human race, humanity, humankind, humans. 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 human beings a common word?

human beings 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.