bean
31 ENTRIES FOUND:
- bean (noun)
- bean (verb)
- bean counter (noun)
- bean curd (noun)
- bean sprouts (noun)
- baked beans (noun)
- broad bean (noun)
- butter bean (noun)
- cocoa bean (noun)
- coffee bean (noun)
- fava bean (noun)
- French bean (noun)
- garbanzo bean (noun)
- green bean (noun)
- haricot bean (noun)
- jelly bean (noun)
- jumping bean (noun)
- kidney bean (noun)
- lima bean (noun)
- Mexican jumping bean (noun)
- mung bean (noun)
- navy bean (noun)
- pinto bean (noun)
- pole bean (noun)
- refried beans (noun)
- snap bean (noun)
- string bean (noun)
- wax bean (noun)
- full (adjective)
- hill (noun)
- spill (verb)
plural
beans
plural
beans
Britannica Dictionary definition of BEAN
[count]
1
a
:
a seed that is eaten as a vegetable and that comes from any one of many different kinds of climbing plants
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We ate rice and beans for dinner.
b
:
a part of a plant that contains very young seeds and that is eaten as a vegetable
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see also green bean, pole bean, snap bean, string bean, wax bean
c
:
a plant that produces beans
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We're growing tomatoes and beans in our garden this year.
2
:
a seed that looks like a bean but that does not come from a climbing plant
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see also jelly bean, jumping bean
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coffee beans
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cocoa beans
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a vanilla bean
a hill of beans
full of beans
informal
1
:
full of energy and life
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We were young and full of beans.
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Although she's much older now, she's still full of beans.
2
US
:
not correct or truthful
:
full of nonsense
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If that's what he's been saying, then he's full of beans.
not know beans about
US, informal
:
to not know anything about (something)
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He doesn't know beans about computers. [=he knows nothing about computers]
spill the beans
informal
:
to reveal secret information
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I tried to get him to tell me what he knew, but he refused to spill the beans.
2
bean
/ˈbiːn/
verb
beans;
beaned;
beaning
2
bean
/ˈbiːn/
verb
beans;
beaned;
beaning
Britannica Dictionary definition of BEAN
[+ object]
informal
:
to hit (someone) on the head with something
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A kid in the back of the room beaned me with an eraser. [=threw an eraser that hit my head]
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(baseball) The pitcher almost beaned the first batter. [=he threw a pitch that almost hit the batter's head]
