How do you use the word "entity" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "entity" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "entity": The small retail outlet is only a front for a much larger entity. The Church is an entity that has accumulated a lot of wealth.

Entity Meaning

/ˈɛn.tɪ.ti/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThat which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.

nounThe existence of something considered apart from its properties.

Sentence Examples

The small retail outlet is only a front for a much larger entity.

The Church is an entity that has accumulated a lot of wealth.

Mary loves all the atoms that form an entity named Tom.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The company is a strictly separate legal ____ from its owners.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The company is a separate legal ____, distinct from its individual owners.

Word Origin & History

From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

"Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”." — 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:

"The monitor overseeing the Trump Organization’s finances wrote in its latest report that Donald Trump’s company intends to create 25 new entities for products or hotel licensing deals." — 2024 October 23, Kara Scannell, “Trump Organization intends to create 25 entities for future product or hotel licensing deals, monitor says”, in CNN:

"[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:

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