Meaning of Bes | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.
   Egyptian
2. N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid
   uncountable
3. Initialism of British Election Study.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.
   historical

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“I use data from several recent academic national surveys: the 2013 Austrian Election Study (AES), British Election Study Panel Survey (BES) conducted in January 2014 (from which I include respondents living in England), and the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) wave conducted in May 2013. […] These questions measuring RWA (or what I would term “authoritarian values”) are available in the BES data.”

“The god Bes occurred so early in the human imagination that it reaches back to the earliest of human settlements along the Nile.”

CEFR level