Definitions for Ben

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Ben ben

Spelling: [ben]

IPA: /bɛn/

Ben is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Ben (ben).

Definitions for Ben

noun

1. the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
2. the seed of a tropical tree, Moringa pterygosperma, that yields an oil (ben oil) used in manufacturing cosmetics and lubricating delicate machinery.
3. a mountain peak; high hill:
4. son of (used especially in Hebrew and Arabic names):
5. a male given name, form of Benjamin.

adjective

1. inside; inner.

adverb, preposition

1. within; inside.

Origin of Ben

1400-50; late Middle English (Scots); as adv., unexplained variant of late Middle English bin, Middle English binne, Old English binnan (cognate with Old Frisian binna, Middle Dutch, German b

Examples for Ben

Just then ben Haley, looking from the window, saw some chickens in the yard.

"Nothing, only you locked the door by mistake," said ben, coolly.

That quote has been misattributed to him since it first appeared in 1881, when ben would have been 175 years old.

I made the film with my two best friends from high school, ben Solomon and Filippo Chia.

The revelation that, at age 42, ben Affleck has one hell of an ass.

That he had reason for his distrust was proved by ben Haley's movements.

ben had drawn off his boots, and was firing them one after the other at the door.

ben Haley meanwhile was rapidly stripping the chicken of its feathers.

“I have a survivalist instinct,” said ben, a 28-year-old New Yorker.

ben is not Orthodox or particularly committed to adhering to traditional Jewish laws.