bean

1. 1.

   hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball

   Broaderhit

Other forms of bean

plural

beans·

past tense

beaned·

present participle

beaning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bean

What does bean mean?

bean means "any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bean?

bean has 1 syllable: bean. In IPA it is /ˈbin/.

What is another word for bean?

Close synonyms include edible bean, bean plant, attic, bonce, noodle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bean a common word?

bean is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bean?

2 words rhyme with bean. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.