ANIMATE THING

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does animate thing mean? 

• ANIMATE THING (noun)
  The noun ANIMATE THING has 1 sense:

1. a living (or once living) entity

  Familiarity information: ANIMATE THING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMATE THING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A living (or once living) entity

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Synonyms:

animate thing; living thing

Hypernyms ("animate thing" is a kind of...):

unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)

Domain member category:

viability ((of living things) capable of normal growth and development)

immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animate thing"):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

life (living things collectively)

biont (a discrete unit of living matter)

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)