BENJAMIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Benjamin mean? 

• BENJAMIN (noun)
  The noun BENJAMIN has 2 senses:

1. gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

2. (Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel

  Familiarity information: BENJAMIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENJAMIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

asa dulcis; benjamin; benzoin; gum benjamin; gum benzoin

Hypernyms ("benjamin" is a kind of...):

gum resin (a mixture of resin and gum)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

The husband, whose name was Thomas Benjamin, had taken out his marriage licence as Thomas only; suppressing the Benjamin, in case he should not find himself as comfortable as he expected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A team led by Dr. Benjamin Prosser at the University of Pennsylvania set out to determine the role that MTs play in heart function.

(Microtubules’ role in heart cell contraction revealed, NIH)

'As for you, Benjamin Gunn,' says they, 'here's a musket,' they says, 'and a spade, and pick-axe. You can stay here and find Flint's money for yourself,' they says.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The silver medal was won by Rai Benjamin from the United States, who finished the race in 47.66 seconds.

(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)

An early Earth without emergent continents may have resembled a 'water world,' providing an important environmental constraint on the origin and evolution of life on Earth as well as its possible existence elsewhere, geoscientists Benjamin Johnson and Boswell Wing write in a paper.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)

A team led by Drs. Benjamin R. Thiede and Jeffrey T. Corwin at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, working in collaboration with the NIDCD team, revealed that another signaling molecule, retinoic acid, acts in concert with Bmp7 to position cells.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

Social Science Genetics Association Consortium (SSGAC) led by Daniel J. Benjamin, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California, found 74 separate areas (loci) on human chromosomes that are associated with more years of education.

(Researchers identify genetic links to educational attainment, NIH)

Biologists Jennifer Brisson of the University of Rochester and Benjamin Parker of the University of Tennessee studied pea aphids and uncovered genes that influence whether aphids produce wingless or winged offspring in response to their environment.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

They don't come down here now; they're all mastheaded on them mountings for the fear of Benjamin Gunn.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

NOT finding himself as comfortable as he expected, or being a little fatigued with his wife, poor fellow, he now came forward, by a friend, after being married a year or two, and declared that his name was Thomas Benjamin, and therefore he was not married at all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)