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If you're struggling to spell the word be, you're not alone. Our page provides the correct spelling, definition, and etymology of this word, along with a variety of sample sentences, idioms, and proverbs featuring be.

This word consists of 2 letters and is spelled as "B-E". It has 1 vowel and 1 consonant.

How do you spell be

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be

verb

How to pronunciation be: ˈbē

What does Be Mean?

What does be meaning in English

1. To have some certain state, condition, quality, or accident; is Seventy senators died By their proscriptions, Cicero being one. Shakesp. J. Cæsar. He hath to night been in unusual pleasure. Macbeth. Be what thou hop’st to be, or what thou art, Resign to death, it is not worth enjoying. Shakesp. H. VI. Be but about To say, she ’s a goodly lady, and The justice of your hearts will add thereto, ’Tis pity she ’s not honest, honourable. Shak. Winter’s Tale. Let them shew the former things what they be, that we may consider them. Isaiah, xli. 2
   
2. Therefore be sure, Thou, when the bridegroom with his feastful friends Passes to bliss at the mid hour of night, Hast gain’d thy entrance, virgin wise and pure. Par. Reg. Is it not easy to discern what such men would be at. Stillingfl. To say a man has a clear idea of quantity, without knowing how great it is, is to say, he has the clear idea of the number of the sands, who knows not how many they be. Locke.
   
3. It is the auxiliary verb by which the verb passive is formed. The wine of life is drawn, and the meer lees Is left this vault to brag of. Shakesp. Macbeth.
   
4. To exist; to have existence. The times have been, That when the brains were out the man would die. Macbeth. Here cease, ye pow’rs, and let your vengeance end, Troy is no more, and can no more offend. Dryden. All th’ impossibilities, which poets Count to extravagance of loose description, Shall sooner be. Rowe’s Ambitious Stepmother. To be contents his natural desire; He asks no angel’s wing, nor seraph’s fire. Pope’s Ess. on M.

Other definitions for be

The definition of 'be' is: to equal in meaning : have the same connotation as : symbolize

How to spell be

Want to know how to spell be, you will find a comprehensive answer on this topic. The word "be consists of 1 syllables and is spelled "ˈbē".

Synonyms for be:

There are synonyms for be'. Depending on the situation and context, the following words are also often used instead of be:

breathe, exist, live, subsist

Some words similar to "be"

• bezocht
• cube root
• bewegen
• bertrande
• lebel
• berry
• microbe
• berne
• behests
• becalm

The word "be" in works of art

There is nothing so bad but it might have been worse.

The Rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

Virginia Woolf / Mrs. Dalloway

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

Waking Life / Richard Linklater

You can't just steal someone's life because you're scared to go get your own.

You / Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts.

The Gulag Archipelago / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What happens when people open their hearts?"" ""They get better.

Haruki Murakami / Norwegian Wood

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me.

Salman Rushdie / Midnight's Children

Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.

The Office (U.S.) / Greg Daniels

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Gulliver's Travels / Jonathan Swift

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How many points in scrabble for be

How many points is the word "be" in Scrabble? Is "be" a Scrabble word? Here is the letter-by-letter scoring of the Scrabble game, which is played all over the world in different languages and with different words.

The total scrabble score for the word be is 4

Understanding English Prepositions

 Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence. Examples of prepositions include "in," "on," "at," "with," and "to." They are important in English because they help us indicate time, location, and direction. For example, you would say "I'm at the store" to indicate your location, and "I'm going to the store" to indicate direction. Prepositions can be tricky because they can have multiple meanings and uses, but practicing with them will make them easier to understand.