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bein

/biːn/

bein adjective: wealthy; well-to-do.

Adjective

bein (comparative more bein, superlative most bein)

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Wealthy; well-to-do.
    • a bein farmer
  2. (Now chiefly dialectal) Well provided; comfortable; cosy.

Adverb

bein (comparative more bein, superlative most bein)

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Comfortably.

Verb

bein (third-person singular simple present beins, present participle beining, simple past and past participle beined)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To render or make comfortable.
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To dry.

bein meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi and Gujarati

bein in Hindi

बीइन

bein in Tamil

பொறுப்பு

bein in Punjabi

ਬੀਇਨ

bein in Gujarati

બીઇન

Examples of bein in a sentence

  • Your fault for bein' so lackwit, ours for givin' you leave.
  • A sale just means yer not bein' gouged as much, doesn't it?
  • Some big cheese bein' grought back to his native island to get planted with his ancestrals.

All 26 example sentences with bein

Forms of bein

Adjective
comparativemore bein
superlativemost bein
alternative formbeen
alternative formbene
alternative formbien
Adverb
comparativemore bein
superlativemost bein
Verb
third-person singular presentbeins
present participlebeining
past participlebeined
pastbeined

Origin of bein

From Middle English been, beene, bene (“gracious, generous, pleasant”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”), from Proto-Germanic *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, beat”). Cognate with Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See also bain.

Words formed from bein

  • beinly

Phrases with bein

Questions about bein

What does bein mean?
Bein means wealthy; well-to-do.
What is bein in Hindi?
Bein in Hindi is बीइन. See Bein meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bein?
Bein can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.
How do you pronounce bein?
Bein is pronounced /biːn/.

Words near bein in the dictionary

  1. Beilke
  2. Beilkes
  3. Beilstein test
  4. Beilstein tests
  5. Beimen
  6. bein
  7. bein darkmans
  8. bein'
  9. Beinan
  10. Beinart
  11. beined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bein (page history and authors); bein (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bein (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bein (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bein (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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