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Ben
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Appendix:Variations of "ben"
English
Pronunciation
en /bɛn/
en /bɪn/ pin-pen
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ben.wav Southern England
en En-au-Ben.ogg AU
en ben ; been<aa:some accents> ; bin<aa:pin-pen>
en ɛn ɪn 1
Etymology 1
Proper noun
A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.
en Peter James (writer) Peter James Sweet Heart London w:Victor Gollancz Ltd 1990 156 https://archive.org/details/sweetheart0000jame_k2p9/page/156/mode/1up 0-575-04697-X Ben wolved down a digestive biscuit, then stretched out on his stomach on the flagstones beside them.
en Victoria J. Hyla Running in the Mists Hearts Drawn Wyld Trilogy 2 Bloomington, Ind. w:AuthorHouse 2013 300 978-1-4772-9662-2 After a moment of comfortable silence, with Ben tenderly rubbing his thumb gently over the back of her hand, he asked, “So what do you want to do now that you’re all stuffed full of waffley goodness?”
The Singular Mind of Terry Tao Gareth Cook 2015-07-24 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-tao.html When mathematicians face a question they cannot answer, they sometimes devise a less stringent question, in the hope that solving it will provide insights. This is the path that Tao took in 2004, in collaboration with Ben Green of Oxford. https://web.archive.org/web/20200318193655/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-tao.html
en 2016-09-11 Domain News Main bathroom reveals on The Block: hold on for the bathroom without a toot Emily Power But Andy and Ben, they are lovers, not fighters … and they are going the battered sav.
Derived terms
en Ben Franklin effect Ben Hill County Big Ben benleonardite Bennifer Benno
Noun
en 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.
Synonyms
en Ben Franklin, en Benjamin, en Benjamin Franklin, en Franklin
Etymology 2
+, Iran
Proper noun
en capital city co:Suf/Ben p:Suf/Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari c/Iran.
en county p:Suf/Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province c/Iran.
Translations
city in Iran
Persian: fa بن ben
Etymology 3
Proper noun
en Beng Mande language of Ivory Coast.
Anagrams
en ben EbN NEB NbE Neb. neb
en diminutives of male given names
Cebuano
Etymology
ceb :der en:Ben + 1
Proper noun
ceb noun
ceb male English
German
Pronunciation
de [bɛn]
de De-at Ben.ogg Austria
de De-Ben.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
m
de male Benjamin
Low German
Pronunciation
nds /bɛɪ̯n/
Noun
n Bener,Benen nds GLG
nds Been: leg
Noun
n
nds Been: bone (as material)
nds Been: bones; a skeleton or skeletons
Category:Dutch diminutives of male given names