Usually means: Scottish term for mountain peak.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. ben: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ben, ben: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ben: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ben: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ben: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ben, Ben, b'en, be'n, ben, ben, ben: Wordnik
  7. Ben, ben: Wiktionary
  8. ben: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ben: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ben: Dictionary.com
  11. ben: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. BEN, Ben (Buffyverse), Ben (German singer), Ben (Hebrew), Ben (Jorge Ben album), Ben (Michael Jackson album), Ben (South Korean singer), Ben (The Walking Dead), Ben (album), Ben (comic strip), Ben (disambiguation), Ben (film), Ben (singer), Ben (song), Ben: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ben: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ben: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ben: Rhymezone
  16. Ben, ben(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ben: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Ben, Ben: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. ben: Free Dictionary
  20. ben: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ben: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ben: Artist Search
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ben-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ben: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. BEN: Acronym Finder
  3. BEN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ben: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BEN: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ben, ben, ben, ben: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ben: The Folk File
  3. Ben: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See bening as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A prayer; a petition.
adverb:  (Scotland, Northern England) Inside.
adjective:  Inner, interior.
noun:  (Scotland, Northern England) The inner room of a two-room cottage (as opposed to the but); the ben room.
noun:  A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
noun:  The winged seed of the ben tree.
noun:  The oil of the ben seed.
noun:  (usually capitalized) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
noun:  A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.
noun:  (UK, theater, slang, obsolete) A benefit (performance to raise funds).
noun:  A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.
noun:  (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.
noun:  The capital city of Ben County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.
noun:  A county of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.
adjective:  (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Alternative spelling of bene; good. [(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Good.]
noun:  Alternative form of Beng (“Mande language of Ivory Coast”) [A Mande language of Ivory Coast.]

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