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• bes
  bes

  noun

  beth.
• Bes
  Bes

  noun

  the patron deity of music, dancing, and children, represented as a hairy dwarf having a tail and wearing a lion's skin.
• B.E.S.
  B.E.S.

  abbreviation

  Bachelor of Engineering Science.

bes

¹ American  

[bays] / beɪs /

noun

1. beth.

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Bes ² American  

[bes] / bɛs /

noun

Egyptian Religion.

1. the patron deity of music, dancing, and children, represented as a hairy dwarf having a tail and wearing a lion's skin.

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B.E.S. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Bachelor of Engineering Science.

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Bes British  

/ bɛs /

noun

1. an ancient Egyptian god represented as a grotesque hairy dwarf: the patron of music and pleasure

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The possible has long been the domain of science fiction, a genre that thrives on could bes and not yets.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2016

“I does de bes I kin,” she said.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Do ye think my son bes only an ould ba cryin' for a toy?

From The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue by Rutherford Mayne

Now choose de one you loves de bes'.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

The sixth method consists in heating together a bes of the copper and one-sixth of a libra each of sulphur, salt, and stibium.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

The Bes mug is on display now at the Tampa Museum of Art and can be viewed in the exhibition, "Prelude: An Introduction to the Permanent Collection."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024

She escorted Matt Stanley, her client, and his Parisian date, Salomé Bes, 30, past the long lines at the museum’s entrance and toward the Code of Hammurabi.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

Synonymous with music and dancing, depictions of Bes often adorned the walls of houses, or as amulets worn around the neck.

From Fox News ● Mar. 20, 2019

Junior Kata Bes, a third-year Spanish student, said they learned so much more from being there.

From Washington Times ● May 1, 2015

Bes seems also to have been a divinity of the same class.

From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

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