Entity Definition

ĕntĭ-tē

entities

noun

Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit.

Persons and corporations are equivalent entities under the law.

American Heritage

Being; existence.

Webster's New World

A thing that has definite, individual existence outside or within the mind; anything real in itself.

Webster's New World

(computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.

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Other Word Forms of Entity

Singular:

entity

Plural:

entities

Medieval Latin entitās from Latin ēns ent- present participle of esse to be es- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Medieval Latin entitas, from Latin, present participle of esse, "to be".

From Wiktionary