say it: BEN-uht
benet is a noun meaning "United States poet; brother of William Rose Benet (1898-1943)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
United States poet; brother of William Rose Benet (1898-1943)
United States writer; brother of Stephen Vincent Benet (1886-1950)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for benet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.