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Bennet

Bennet \Ben"net\, n. [F. beno[^i]te, fr. L. benedicta, fem. of benedictus, p. p., blessed. See Benedict, a.] (Bot.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe ( Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

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bennet

n. 1 The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (''Geum urbanum''); herb bennet. 2 hemlock 3 valerian

WordNet
bennet
  1. n. avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers [syn: white avens, Geum virginianum]

  2. North American white-flowered avens [syn: white avens, Geum canadense]

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Bennet, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 570
Housing Units (2000): 231
Land area (2000): 0.425459 sq. miles (1.101934 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.425459 sq. miles (1.101934 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04300
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.680349 N, 96.506355 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68317
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Bennet
Not to be confused with Benet, Bennett, or Benett

__NOTOC__ Bennet may refer to:

  • Bennet (surname)
  • Bennet Namakeha, Hawaiian noble
  • Bennet Omalu (born 1968), Nigerian-born American pathologist most noted for his investigations on the long-term impact of concussions in American football
  • Bennet (Supermarket) in Italy
  • Bennet (band), a British independent rock band active in the 1990s
  • Bennet Veetraag, music director duo from kerala, India
  • Bennet and the Band, a backing band from kerala, India
  • Bennet, Nebraska
  • Bennet or Herb-Bennet
Bennet (supermarket)

Bennet is the name of a hypermarket / supermarket chain with 59 retail locations in northern Italy. The business was founded by Enzo Ratti in 1964 at Como and the head office is still located in nearby Montano Lucino. Most of the commercial outlets are located in Lombardy (23) or Piedmont (24); the rest are in Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia or Liguria.

Category:Retail companies of Italy Category:Italian brands Category:Retail companies established in 1964

Bennet (band)

Bennet were a British alternative rock band formed in 1993. They released two albums on Roadrunner Records, achieving mild success on the independent circuit in the UK. They were best known for their 1997 single "Mum's Gone to Iceland", the title of which came from a British television advertisement for the supermarket chain, Iceland. The band split up in 1998.

In 2016 they reformed with a new single due to be released in the summer, as well as a B Sides compilation.

Bennet (surname)

Bennet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville
  • Douglas J. Bennet, president of Wesleyan University
  • Eduardo Bennet, soccer player
  • Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington
  • Isabella Bennet, 2nd Countess of Arlington
  • John Bennet (disambiguation)
    • John Bennet (composer) (c. 1575 – after 1614), English composer
    • John Bennet (judge) (1552/3–1627), English judge and MP accused of corruption
    • John Bennet (preacher) (1714–1759), English Methodist preacher
    • John Bennet (MP) (1628–1663), English landowner and politician
    • John Bennet (writer) (died 1686), English writer
    • John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston (1616–1695), English statesman
    • John Bennet (archaeologist), British archaeologist and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at Sheffield University
    • John Bennet of the Bennet baronets
  • Meg Bennet, screenwriter, actress
  • Michael Bennet, United States Senator from Colorado
  • Spencer Gordon Bennet, film director
  • Thomas Bennet (clergyman), English clergyman
  • Thomas Bennet (academic), Master of University College, Oxford

Usage examples of "bennet".

Bennet before breakfast, a conversation beginning with his parsonage-house, and leading naturally to the avowal of his hopes, that a mistress might be found for it at Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on.

Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a little wilderness on one side of your lawn.

She threw shut her front door and, feeling very much like Jasmin Field again and very little like Lizzy Bennet, stomped angrily up the stairs.

Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by such commendation to think of her as he chose.

Miss Bennet had slept ill, and though up, was very feverish, and not well enough to leave her room.

I thought Miss Elizabeth Bennet looked remarkably well when she came into the room this morning.

Miss Jane Bennet, she is really a very sweet girl, and I wish with all my heart she were well settled.

Jones should be sent for early in the morning, if Miss Bennet were not decidedly better.

Miss Bennet will receive every possible attention while she remains with us.

Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.

Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room.

Bingley was the principal spokesman, and Miss Bennet the principal object.

Miss Bennet, at such an assertion, after seeing, as you probably might, the very cold manner of our meeting yesterday.

I could wish, Miss Bennet, that you were not to sketch my character at the present moment, as there is reason to fear that the performance would reflect no credit on either.

The least agreeable circumstance in the business was the surprise it must occasion to Elizabeth Bennet, whose friendship she valued beyond that of any other person.