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Bean

Food And Drink
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A simple edible seed that can represent sustenance, labor, and humble domestic life. It may also suggest growth from small beginnings.

Detailed Definition
Bean is useful in poetry because it joins plain nourishment to the mystery of germination. A dry bean in a hand appears small and ordinary, yet it contains the possibility of roots, vines, flowers, and harvest. Poets may use beans to describe poverty, thrift, village meals, or the resilience of people living close to the soil. A bean field can become an image of repetitive labor, patient weather-watching, and communal dependence on the seasons.
Example
Example in poetry:
Beans can represent humble food, thrift, labor, or survival in a poem; A poet might write, “We shelled beans on the porch, each green pod opening like a purse”; A bean seed can become an image of potential, as in “One bean in the dark soil imagined a ladder of leaves”; “The pot of beans kept singing through the lean week” uses food to show endurance
Additional Notes
Bean emphasizes humble nourishment and patient growth, especially in images of planting, harvesting, labor, and household economy.
Also Known As
Legume Pulse
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