entity
Syllables: en·ti·tyUK/ˈɛn.tɪt.i//ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi]
entity noun: that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
Noun
entity (plural entities)
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
- The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix
- The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
- Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
- The state or quality of being or existence.
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
- A spirit, ghost, or the like.
- [B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231
- An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
Proper noun capitalized: Entity
the Entity
- The central intelligence agency of the Holy See, which conducts foreign intelligence for the Vatican City and Catholic Church.
- Synonyms:
- SIV
- Israel (synonym of Zionist Entity).
- The United States and Israel, or the West as a whole, when viewed as synonymous with Israel.
entity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
entity in Hindi
- that which exists as an individual unit
- अस्तित्वी astitvī
entity in Tamil
- பரம், உளதாம் பொருள், உள் பொருள், உண்ம உரு, உருஉள்ள, தனி உரு
entity in Urdu
- that which exists as an individual unit
- ہستی hasti
entity in Bengali
- entity, existence
- সত্তা śotta
More languagesFewer languages
- entity in Telugu
- ఎంటిటీ
- entity in Malayalam
- അസ്തിത്വം, അസ്തിത, സത്ത, ജീവൻ
- entity in Kannada
- ಅಸ್ತಿತ್ವ, ಇರುವು, ಇರುವಿಕೆ, ಇರಂ
- entity in Punjabi
- ਹੋਂਦ hond
- entity in Gujarati
- અસ્તિત્વ astitva
- entity in Odia
- ସତ୍ତା
- entity in Sanskrit
- सत् sát
- entity in Arabic
- كِيَان kiyān
Examples of entity in a sentence
- Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities.
- Regulation materials of cells vary greatly: even water can be an important regulome entity.
- Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
Synonyms of entity
Antonyms
Forms of entity
| plural | entities |
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Origin of entity
From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.
* (Vatican intelligence): Translation of Italian l'Entità. * (Israel): Ellipsis of Zionist entity.
Words formed from entity
Phrases with entity
- entity tags
- entity beans
- legal entity
- mobile entity
- Zionist entity
- molecular entity
- political entity
- first-class entity
- third-class entity
- geopolitical entity
- second-class entity
- micronational entity
3 more phrasesFewer phrases
Questions about entity
- What does entity mean?
- Entity means that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
- What is entity in Hindi?
- Entity in Hindi is अस्तित्वी (astitvī). See Entity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is entity?
- Entity can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce entity?
- Entity is pronounced /ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi] (US).
- What is the plural of entity?
- The plural of entity is entities.
Words near entity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: entity (page history and authors); Entity (page history and authors); entity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সত্তা (Bengali) (page history and authors); entity (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); entity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਹੋਂਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); entity (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); सत् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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