HOW TO PRONOUNCE
been
/bɪn/
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What does been mean?
verb
- past participle of be.
- remote past form of be.
noun
- plural of bee
More meanings (2)
verb
- (rare) Synonym of be (infinitival sense).
- (obsolete) plural simple present of be.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɪn/
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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.
Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man.
He had lost two children, boys, that came between Lou and Emil, and there had been the cost of sickness and death.