exist: meaning and definitions

To have actual being; be real.

To have life; live: one of the worst actors that ever existed.

To live at a minimal level; subsist: barely enough income on which to exist.

To continue to be; persist: old customs that still exist in rural areas.

To be present under certain circumstances or in a specified place; occur: "Wealth and poverty exist in every demographic category” ( Thomas G. Exter).