"ben't" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "ben't",
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      "expansion": "ben't",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!",
          "text": "'What... I only hope he ben't one of those popish murderers,' said the old steward, keeping at a safe distance from him, as they entered the hall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, The Sunday Magazine, page 476",
          "text": "\"Well, Joe, I ben't a fool, if I ben't so religious as you be. You ben't a bad fellow, though you be a Methodist, and I ben't a fool, though I be Harry Cobb.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Elizabeth Mansfield, Miscalculations",
          "text": "\"You be a guest, ben't ye?\" a footman asked, getting to his feet again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kenneth P. Minkema, Adriaan C. Neele, Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables, page 119",
          "text": "Death and eternity ben't so familiar to them at such times; {they are} very much unacquainted with them",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Vanbrugh, Bernard Harris, The Relapse, page 96",
          "text": "I wish there ben't some mistake in this business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "be not (am not, is not, are not)"
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        [
          "not",
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        [
          "am",
          "am"
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        [
          "is",
          "is"
        ],
        [
          "are",
          "are"
        ]
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        "(dialect) be not (am not, is not, are not)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɪnt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biːnt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ben't"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
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        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English contractions",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!",
          "text": "'What... I only hope he ben't one of those popish murderers,' said the old steward, keeping at a safe distance from him, as they entered the hall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, The Sunday Magazine, page 476",
          "text": "\"Well, Joe, I ben't a fool, if I ben't so religious as you be. You ben't a bad fellow, though you be a Methodist, and I ben't a fool, though I be Harry Cobb.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Elizabeth Mansfield, Miscalculations",
          "text": "\"You be a guest, ben't ye?\" a footman asked, getting to his feet again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kenneth P. Minkema, Adriaan C. Neele, Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables, page 119",
          "text": "Death and eternity ben't so familiar to them at such times; {they are} very much unacquainted with them",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Vanbrugh, Bernard Harris, The Relapse, page 96",
          "text": "I wish there ben't some mistake in this business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "be not (am not, is not, are not)"
      ],
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          "not",
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        [
          "am",
          "am"
        ],
        [
          "is",
          "is"
        ],
        [
          "are",
          "are"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialect) be not (am not, is not, are not)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction",
        "dialectal"
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    {
      "ipa": "/bɪnt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biːnt/"
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  "word": "ben't"
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