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Bes
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- 1 Initialism of British Election Study. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"I use data from several recent academic national surveys: the 2013 Austrian Election Study (AES), British Election Study Panel Survey (BES) conducted in January 2014 (from which I include respondents living in England), and the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) wave conducted in May 2013. […] These questions measuring RWA (or what I would term “authoritarian values”) are available in the BES data."
- 2 An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth. Egyptian
"The god Bes occurred so early in the human imagination that it reaches back to the earliest of human settlements along the Nile."
- 1 A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as. historical
- 2 plural of be (“Cyrillic letter”) form-of, plural
- 3 Alternative form of beth (“Semitic letter”). alt-of, alternative
- 4 N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid uncountable
- 5 plural of BE form-of, plural
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of be dialectal, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
"She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares."
- 2 Present tense inflected form of be: am or are. dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, present
"She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares."
Etymology
From Middle English bes.
Borrowed from Latin bes.
See also for "bes"
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