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beneath one |
benedetto caetani |
benedetto odescalchi |
benedicite |
benedick |
Benedict
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| benedictine
Benedict
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Benedict has 3 senses
- benedict(n = noun.person) ruth benedict, ruth fulton - United States anthropologist (1887-1948); Array is a kind of anthropologist
- benedict(n = noun.person) saint benedict, st. benedict - Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547); Array is a kind of monastic, monk, saint
- benedict(n = noun.person) benedick - a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor); Array is a kind of hubby, husband, married man
CIDE DICTIONARY
Benedict, n. [From Benedick, one of the characters in Shakespeare's play of “Much Ado about Nothing.”].
A married man, or a man newly married. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
Benedict
Marriage
N marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii, nuptial tie, married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation, match, betrothment, wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal, espousals, spousals, leading to the altar, nuptial benediction, epithalamium, sealing, torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen, hymeneal altar, honeymoon, bridesmaid, bridesman, best man, bride, bridegroom, married man, married woman, married couple, neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate, husband, man, consort, baron, old man, good man, wife of one's bosom, helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife, feme, feme coverte, squaw, lady, matron, matronage, matronhood, man and wife, wedded pair, Darby and Joan, spiritual wife, monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy, mormonism, levirate, spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism, polyandrism, Turk, bluebeard, unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage, mesalliance, mariage de convenance, marriage broker, matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker, schatchen, married, one, one bone and one flesh, marriageable, nubile, engaged, betrothed, affianced, matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded, nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal, the gray mare the better horse, a world-without-end bargain, marriages are made in Heaven, render me worthy of this noble wife, si qua voles apte nubere nube pari.
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