US /bɛn/ UK /bɛn/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a high mountain or peak, especially in Scotland

    They climbed the snow-capped ben before noon.

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1 noun · a high mountain or peak,... mountainpeaksummitmount
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Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic beinn ('mountain'), from Old Irish benn ('peak, horn'), from Proto-Celtic *bennā.

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