entity - that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

whole thing, whole, unit - an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

animate thing, living thing - a living (or once living) entity

natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man

artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole

good luck charm, charm - something believed to bring good luck

curio, curiosity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity, oddity - something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

draw, lot - anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"

film - a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust"

hoodoo - something believed to bring bad luck

je ne sais quois - something indescribable

keepsake, souvenir, relic, token - something of sentimental value

makeweight, filler - anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights"

portion, part - something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"

prop, property - any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props"

snake - something resembling a snake

small beer, trivia, triviality, trifle - something of small importance

sundries, sundry, whatchamacallit, whatsis, stuff - miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"

paring - (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel; "she could peel an apple with a single long paring"

catch - anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching); "he shared his catch with the others"

discard - anything that is cast aside or discarded

finding - something that is found; "the findings in the gastrointestinal tract indicate that he died several hours after dinner"; "an area rich in archaelogical findings"

floater - an object that floats or is capable of floating

fomite, vehicle - any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another

growth - something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"

head - a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet"

ice - the frozen part of a body of water

dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, land, earth - the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"

land, soil, ground - material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"

moon - any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that showed various phases"

neighbor, neighbour - a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?"

remains - any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw out the remains of my dinner"

ribbon, thread - any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a gray thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"

shiner - something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)

vagabond - anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"

wall - anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall"

web - an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn"

goal, end - the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means"

business - an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening"

point - the object of an activity; "what is the point of discussing it?"

thing - a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds"

grammar - studies of the formation of basic linguistic units

object of a preposition, prepositional object - the object governed by a preposition

direct object, object of the verb - the object that receives the direct action of the verb

indirect object - the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb

retained object - an object in a passive construction

grammatical constituent, constituent - (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction

cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

antipathy - the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy"

bugbear, hobgoblin - an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson

execration - the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated

center of attention, center - the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party"

hallucination - an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"

infatuation - an object of extravagant short-lived passion

love, passion - any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love" or "he has a passion for cock fighting";

disapprove, reject - deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"

demur, except - take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"

take exception, challenge - raise a formal objection in a court of law

carp, cavil, chicane - raise trivial objections

mind - be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by; "I don't mind your behavior"

remonstrate - argue in protest or opposition

raise hell - object strongly; make a stink

be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"