bes

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   third-person singular simple present indicative of be

   • She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.
   • "An' he bes free times as old as herself," he wailed, " an' ugly as a squid ! But he bes rich — rich as any marchant — an' for the bread an' the fixin's an' the gold she bes takin' 'im."
   • And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.
2. 2

   Present tense inflected form of be

   Present tense inflected form of be: am or are.

   • She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.
   • And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.
3. 3

   A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.

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   1. 4

      plural of be (“Cyrillic letter”)

   2. 5

      Alternative form of beth (“Semitic letter”).

   3. 6

      N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid

   4. 7

      Initialism of British Election Study.

   5. 8

      plural of BE

   6. 9

      An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.

      • The god Bes occurred so early in the human imagination that it reaches back to the earliest of human settlements along the Nile.

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