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ben

noun
/bɛn/

Etymology

From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōni, from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Related to ban. More at boon.

  1. derived from *bʰeh₂-✻
  2. derived from *bōniz✻
  3. derived from *bōni✻
  4. derived from bēn
  5. derived from ben

Definitions

  1. A prayer

    A prayer; a petition.

  2. In, into.

    • And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.

  3. Inside.

  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. Inner, interior.

    2. The inner room of a two-room cottage (as opposed to the but)

      The inner room of a two-room cottage (as opposed to the but); the ben room.

      • Bert Kerston was awakened by a steady tap on the ben window.

    3. A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of…

      A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.

    4. The winged seed of the ben tree.

    5. The oil of the ben seed.

    6. Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).

    7. A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.

    8. Alternative spelling of bene

      Alternative spelling of bene; good.

      • A gage of ben Rom-bouse, / In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile, / Is benar than a Caster, / Pecke, pennam, lay, or popler, / Which we mill in deuse a vile.

    9. A benefit (performance to raise funds).

    10. Alternative form of bin.

    11. A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.

      • Ben wolved down a digestive biscuit, then stretched out on his stomach on the flagstones beside them.
      • After a moment of comfortable silence, with Ben tenderly rubbing his thumb gently over the back of her hand, he asked, “So what do you want to do now that you’re all stuffed full of waffley goodness?”
      • When mathematicians face a question they cannot answer, they sometimes devise a less stringent question, in the hope that solving it will provide insights. This is the path that Tao took in 2004, in collaboration with Ben Green of Oxford.

    12. A US$100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Often used in the plural form…

      A US$100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Often used in the plural form to indicate large sums of money.

    13. The capital city of Ben County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.

    14. A county of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.

    15. Alternative form of Beng (“Mande language of Ivory Coast”).

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Derived

ben-nut, ben oil

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA