the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
adverb, preposition
2.
within; inside.
adjective
3.
inside; inner.
Origin
1400-50;late Middle English (Scots); as adv., unexplained variant of late Middle Englishbin,Middle Englishbinne,Old Englishbinnan (cognate with Old Frisianbinna,Middle Dutch,Germanbinnen), equivalent to bi-be- + innan within (cf. in)
ben2
[ben] /bɛn/
noun
1.
the seed of a tropical tree, Moringa pterygosperma, that yields an oil (ben oil) used in manufacturing cosmetics and lubricating delicate machinery.
any of several Asiatic trees of the genus Moringa, esp M. oleifera of Arabia and India, whose seeds yield oil of ben, used in manufacturing perfumes and cosmetics, lubricating delicate machinery, etc: family Moringaceae
2.
the seed of such a tree
Word Origin
C15: from Arabic bān
ben3
/bɛn/
noun
1.
(Scot & Irish) a mountain peak (esp in place names): Ben Lomond
Word Origin
C18: from Gaelic beinn, from beann
Word Origin and History for ben
n.
"mountain peak" in Celtic place names (especially of roughly pyramidal peaks standing alone), from Gaelic beinn, from Old Irish *benno- "peak, horn, conical point," from PIE root *bend- "projecting point."