animate being meaning

Noun: animate being

1. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
   - animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna

Derived forms: animate beings

Type of: being, organism

Part of: animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia

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1. Every animate being on the planet is one or the other.
2. An animate being is either a person, or is not.
3. All Bantu languages have a noun class specifically for humans ( sometimes including other animate beings ).
4. They relished their special meals that were guaranteed to be free of all forms of once-animate beings.
5. He is also the subject of a 19th-century legend that he created The Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay.