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heben

heben noun: ebony.

Noun

heben (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Ebony.
    • And thou moſt dreaded impe of higheſt Ioue, / Faire Venus ſonne, that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight ſo cunningly didſt rove, / That glorious fire it kindled in his heart, / Lay now thy deadly Heben bow apart, / And with thy mother milde come to my ayde: […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 2

Origin of heben

From Middle English ebenif, hebenyf (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus), from Ecclesiastical Latin ebenius (“of ebony”), from Latin hebenus (“ebon tree”), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj, U13:n-Z4:M3

Questions about heben

What does heben mean?
Heben means ebony.
What part of speech is heben?
Heben is a noun.

Words near heben in the dictionary

  1. Hebdons
  2. hebe
  3. hebe-
  4. Hebean
  5. Hebei
  6. heben
  7. hebene
  8. hebenon
  9. Hebenstreit
  10. Hebenstreits
  11. hebephile

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