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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

been

/bɪn/

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What does been mean?

verb

  1. past participle of be.
  2. remote past form of be.

noun

  1. plural of bee
More meanings (2)

verb

  1. (rare) Synonym of be (infinitival sense).
  2. (obsolete) plural simple present of be.

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IPA pronunciation

/bɪn/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/bən/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in WonderlandProject Gutenberg ebook #11
Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.
J. M. (James Matthew) BarriePeter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]Project Gutenberg ebook #16
More book examples (3)
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18
I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man.
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveProject Gutenberg ebook #23
He had lost two children, boys, that came between Lou and Emil, and there had been the cost of sickness and death.
Willa CatherO Pioneers!Project Gutenberg ebook #24