big ben

1. 1.

   clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London

   Broaderclock

   Part ofLondon

Questions about big ben

What does big ben mean?

big ben means "clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London".

Is big ben a common word?

big ben is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.