bean
🇺🇸
/biːn/
🇬🇧
/biːn/
noun
A2
A seed or pod from a climbing plant that is eaten as food.
I like to eat green bean soup for lunch.
B1
A seed from plants like coffee or cocoa.
Coffee is made from roasted coffee bean.
verb
R
To hit someone on the head.
The baseball hit him and beaned him on the head.
translation
A seed or pod from a climbing plant that is eaten as food.; A seed from plants like coffee or cocoa.
To hit someone on the head.
Word Forms
Plural
beans
Progressive
beaning
Past
beaned