Etymology : Middle English, from Old English binnan, from be- + innan within, from within, from in
Pronunciation : ben
Function : adverb
Date : before 12th century
1. beauty spot. mole. ego. i. myself.
2. male first name (form of Benjamin). high point, summit, peak. ben\ben\, adv. & prep. [as. binnan; pref. be- by + innan within, in in.] within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [scot.]ben \ben\, n. [see:
ben, adv.] the inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment. [scot.]ben \ben\ an old form of the pl. indic. pr. of be. [obs.]ben \ben\ , ben nut \ben" nut`\ ] . [ar. bān, name of the tree.] (bot.) the seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. see:
moringa.
3. beauty spot. mole. ego. i. myself. me.
4. The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben.
5. See Moringa.
6. Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
7. The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; opposed to but, the outer apartment.
8. An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.
9. A hoglike mammal of New Guinea . a mountain or tall hill; "they were climbing the ben".
10. beauty spot, nevus, mole; ego, the "I" part of the psyche. I, myself. mole, beauty spot.
11. mole; beauty spot.
12. freckle (on a person´s skin).
13. spot, macula (in the eye).
14. dark fleck of color (in the skin of a ripening fruit). ben dü?mek /a/.
15. to get moles or dark brown freckles on (one´s skin).
16. for a spot to appear in (one´s eye).
17. (for a ripening fruit) to become flecked with dark spots of color.". I.
18. ego. me. self. beauty spot.
19. I. mole. myself.
20. Within. Akiba ben Joseph Alfasi Isaac ben Jacob Alkalai Judah ben Solomon Hai Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph Israel ben Eliezer Ben Ali Zine el Abidine Ben Bella Ahmed Ben Nevis Ben Gurion David Big Ben Mohammed ben Brahim Boukharouba Eleazar ben Judah of Worms Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymos Elijah ben Solomon Elisha ben Abuyah Hecht Ben Heller Yom Tov Lipmann ben Nathan Ha Levi Hogan Ben Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol Ibn Tibbon Judah ben Saul Ishmael ben Elisha Israeli Isaac ben Solomon Jacob ben Asher Johanan ben Zakkai Joseph Ben Matthias Judah ben Samuel Karo Joseph ben Ephraim Luria Isaac ben Solomon Salomon ben Joshua Moses ben Maimon Manasseh ben Israel Meir ben Baruch Moses ben Menachem Moses ben Shem Tov Prusiner Stanley Ben Saadia ben Joseph.