benison

1. 1.

   a spoken blessing

   Broaderbenediction

Other forms of benison

plural

benisons·

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 benison

What does benison mean?

benison means "a spoken blessing".

How many syllables are in benison?

benison has 3 syllables: be-ni-son. The stress falls on "be".

Is benison a common word?

benison is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.