human being

human being (plural human beings)

1. A person; a large sapient, bipedal primate, with notably less hair than others of that order, of the species Homo sapiens.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, VII xiv:

     He began to reflect that in a few Minutes he might possibly deprive a human Being of Life, or might lose his own.

2. Another, extinct member of the genus Homo.

• human
• person
• See also Thesaurus:person

• ape
• chimpanzee
• featherless biped
• naked ape