Steven vs Ben - What's the difference?
steven | ben |
, a variant spelling of Stephen.
* 1989 Ann Beattie: Picturing Will . Random House. ISBN 0394569873 page 67:
(Scotland, northern England) In, into.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 32:
Inner, interior.
(Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
The winged seed of the ben tree.
The oil of the ben seed.
(usually, capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
As a noun steven
is the voice, now especially when loud or strong or steven can be (obsolete) a time, occasion.As a verb steven
is (obsolete) to speak; utter; describe; tell of; name or steven can be (obsolete) to call; summon; command; appoint.As an adverb ben is
well.steven
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- His first name was probably Steve or Ed. No, there were no more Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael.
Anagrams
* ----ben
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ben, bene, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) ben, bene, variation of bin, .Preposition
(English prepositions)- And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.