byen

B3Y4E1N1
/ˈbjɛn/

noun

bone

OriginNorthern Middle English bane →
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Meanings

nounbyen (plural byens)

plural byens

  1. Geordiebone

    Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—

    1840, R. Emery, “Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water”, in The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect, →ISBN, page 303

Origin

  1. Northern Middle Englishbane“bone”
  2. Englishbyen

A dialectal reflex of Northern Middle English bane (“bone”), featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with byen

whenbeenthannthenevenwomenmenagainenuntenbenkenpendengenPennglenynGlennzenyensen
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APA

byen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/byen

MLA

“byen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/byen. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “byen,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/byen.

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