Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past participle of be.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Past participle, and obsolete present plural and infinitive, of be.
- n. Obsolete plural of bee
- See bein.
- n. A fretted stringed instrument of music of the guitar kind, having nineteen frets, used in India.
- n. See vina.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old English bēon ("bees"), nominative and accusative plural of bēo ("bee"). More at bee. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We are here to speak of the thousands of women who� have been destroyed through war, who have been� raped, battered and butchered.”
Remarks by Bella Abzug at the 42nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
“Not only has the slave territory been nearly doubled in the present century; but by a recent decision of the Supreme Court, every law which _has been_ passed by Congress restricting slavery, is pronounced contrary to the constitution, and therefore invalid.”
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
“We can say, I _have_ been, I _had_ been; but what sort of a tense is, _had have been_?”
“(Substitute _have been seeing_ for _have been_ in the future perfect indicative of _to be_.)”
“(Substitute _have been seen_ for _have been_ in the future perfect indicative of _to be_.)”
“Compounds of more than two words may be analyzed thus: +May have been written+ is composed of the compound auxiliary +may have been+ and the participle +written; may have been+ is composed of the compound auxiliary”
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
“The soldiers of July, who, in his opinion, could have been overcome by one-third their number of British regulars, were in September perhaps as fine a body of men in all respects of physique as had ever been assembled by any power in the world.”
“If the smallest and least of the countries of Asia has been able to do this, it is because she has _been let alone_, -- not conquered, exploited, nor drugged.”
“I have been a man, a husband, and a father; that is, I have _been_ a father!”
“This being the case, no amount of clamor from game dealers and their allies ever should induce any state legislature to provide for the sale of any of those species _until it has been fully demonstrated_ that they _have been_ and _can be_ bred in captivity in large numbers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘been’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Resident Pipsiculturalist Makes Huge ...
See comments on pipsiculture and homosexuality, which have nothing to do with each other except that I read comments on them at around the same time on the same day.
See also the list ...heterosexuality, homosexuality, agriculture, argumentative, that, article, thus, make, do, the, interesting, like and 106 more...
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State-of-being verbs
Verbs that establish or connect to the status (condition, state of being, the way something is) of someone or something.
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Personally Unpronounceable
thus, tentatively, bagel, clinton, farcical, gerund, franchised, condescension, entendre, posthumously, swatch, swathe and 10 more...
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babble
unison, cactus, drive-in, hallo, strembonita, amurny, shampooist, shagtastic, ecbatic, doily, yappa, ness and 7 more...
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oh canada
Some of these are words that I've only heard from Canadians. Others are just words that are used or pronounced differently here.
keener, sleeve, about, phone, toque, soccer baseball, pasta, elastic, washroom, beaver tail, loonie, postal code and 23 more...
Tweets
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pterodactyl See this map for American pronunciation. Apr 10, 2008