Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A newly married man who was previously considered a confirmed bachelor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Blessed; benign; salutary; especially, in medicine, having mild and salubrious qualities: as, “medicines that are benedict,”
- noun A sportive name for a newly married man, especially one who has been long a bachelor, or who has been in the habit of ridiculing marriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A married man, or a man newly married.
- adjective obsolete Having mild and salubrious qualities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A newly married man, especially one who was previously a confirmed bachelor.
- adjective obsolete Having
mild andsalubrious qualities.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547)
- noun United States anthropologist (1887-1948)
- noun a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(Did you know their eggs benedict is short of terrible when there's no other option?)
Bookninja 2009
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The next day, sun shining and hair straight, I sat down with the prolific artist as he ate pancakes and eggs benedict, and ruminated over hip hop legacy in the American cultural paradigm.
Courtney Garcia: Sundance, Ice-T, and Shades of the American Race in Cinema Courtney Garcia 2012
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The "Jewels on Toast" offerings translate to eggs benedict ($10) and whipped ricotta ($10, with grilled pears, honey, basil and chile) versions for brunch.
Beauty and the Bacon 2011
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Classic brunch dishes include eggs benedict $12, featuring perfectly poached eggs served on a thin layer of braised pork belly.
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Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal Dulce de leche French toast The spicy tuna eggs benedict $21 features poached eggs with avocado, tuna and seaweed hollandaise.
Give Some, Get Some 2011
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The next day, sun shining and hair straight, I sat down with the prolific artist as he ate pancakes and eggs benedict, and ruminated over hip hop legacy in the American cultural paradigm.
Courtney Garcia: Sundance, Ice-T, and Shades of the American Race in Cinema Courtney Garcia 2012
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The next day, sun shining and hair straight, I sat down with the prolific artist as he ate pancakes and eggs benedict, and ruminated over hip hop legacy in the American cultural paradigm.
Courtney Garcia: Sundance, Ice-T, and Shades of the American Race in Cinema Courtney Garcia 2012
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The next day, sun shining and hair straight, I sat down with the prolific artist as he ate pancakes and eggs benedict, and ruminated over hip hop legacy in the American cultural paradigm.
Courtney Garcia: Sundance, Ice-T, and Shades of the American Race in Cinema Courtney Garcia 2012
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The next day, sun shining and hair straight, I sat down with the prolific artist as he ate pancakes and eggs benedict, and ruminated over hip hop legacy in the American cultural paradigm.
Courtney Garcia: Sundance, Ice-T, and Shades of the American Race in Cinema Courtney Garcia 2012
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The crawfish benedict ($15) is popular at brunch, as is the 8-inch farmhouse "pan" cake ($13).
Northern Migration Monica Williams 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word benedict
(noun) - A married man. From Benedict, the husband of Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing.
--James Maitland's American Slang Dictionary, 1891
January 16, 2018