ben

«ben» in Mova's school dictionary: a boy's name, short for Benjamin — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a ben, bens — Scotland); name (Ben)

meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Ben is a boy's name, short for Benjamin. tree →

2) (Scotland) A ben is a mountain or high peak, used in names like Ben Nevis. tree →

3) (Scotland, old) The ben is the inner room of a small cottage («but and ben»). tree →

sense in the lessons

Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in the UK (1,345 m). Big Ben is the famous great bell of the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament in London, and people use the name for the tower too.

examples

• Ben is my best friend. tree →
• Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Britain. tree →
• Big Ben chimes every hour. tree →
• We climbed a ben in the Highlands. tree →
• Ben and Lily walked to school. tree →
• The Scottish cottage had a but and a ben. tree →
• "Howdy, Daddy Ben?" the stranger exclaimed. tree →

note

As a name it has a capital B. Big Ben is really the bell's name, though people use it for the whole tower (the Elizabeth Tower).

In the corpora

• In "Amy is taller than Ben.
• Ben in Austin pressed the reset button every time he was losing a video game with his friend Luis.
• Ben pretended to have a sore leg so he wouldn't come last on sports day.
• Dad caught Ben at the keyhole looking at hidden presents and simply moved them somewhere else.
• Ben ate the sweets saved for the Sunday school prize, then owned up and brought a new bag from his pocket money.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ben» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.