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been (bin; often ben; Cdn also and Brit usually bēn)

intransitive verb

be

Etymology: ME ben < OE beon: see be

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The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

-Gurney, Ivor

   For what has beenöthanks! For what shall beöyes!

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are,'It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be.'

-Harte, (Francis) Bret

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