Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Past participle, and obsolete present plural and infinitive, of be.
- noun A fretted stringed instrument of music of the guitar kind, having nineteen frets, used in India.
- noun See
vina . - noun Obsolete plural of
bee - See
bein .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The past participle of
be . In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural ofbe . See 1stbee .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
bee . - verb Past participle of
be - verb obsolete
were
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word been.
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 Jewish Women's Archive 2010
-
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 Jewish Women's Archive 2010
-
We can say, I _have_ been, I _had_ been; but what sort of a tense is, _had have been_?
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
-
(Substitute _have been seeing_ for _have been_ in the future perfect indicative of _to be_.)
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
-
(Substitute _have been seen_ for _have been_ in the future perfect indicative of _to be_.)
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
-
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 Henry A. Murray
-
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 Brainerd Kellogg
-
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.
Chapter II 1917
-
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.
Peking Dust Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
-
I have been a man, a husband, and a father; that is, I have _been_ a father!
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
pterodactyl commented on the word been
See this map for American pronunciation.
April 10, 2008