ben

Speech parts

1. ben - Noun

2. ben - Adjective

3. ben - Adverb

4. ben - Preposition

6. Ben - Proper noun

Meaning

Alt. of Ben nut

Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.

The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.

An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

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My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. Rodney Dangerfield

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is. Geoffrey Chaucer

Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too. Liza Minnelli

This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. Orson Scott Card

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. William Faulkner

Beat qu dou ben d'autruc fa son aprenissagi. Provençal Proverb

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