Ben meaning

bĕn
Inside; within.
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Within.
preposition
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The inner room or parlor of a house with two rooms.
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Son (of)

Rabbi Ben Ezra.

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A mountain peak.

Ben Nevis.

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Within; inside.
adverb
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The inner room or living room of a cottage.
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A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.
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(US, slang) A US$100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Often used in the plural form to indicate large sums of money.
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Origin of ben

  • Middle English variant of binne within from Old English binnan en in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ben Sentence Examples

  • His life was such that no man could ever say, "Ben Franklin has wronged me."

  • "I'll talk to Ben and call you back," she said.

  • I, Ben Gustefson, collated boring statistical figures while locked in a cramped cubical of a company that offered me no future potential.

  • All these writers, however, are entirely eclipsed by the commanding personality of the most famous of the Geonim, Seadiah ben Joseph (q.v.) of Sura, often called al-Fayyumi (of the Fayum in Egypt), one of the greatest representatives of Jewish learning of all times, who died in 942.

  • "Ben and I will keep watch, like this afternoon," Betsy said.

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