bienfaisant, -e, adj., beneficent, kind, gracious, bountiful, munificent.
bienfait, n.m., good term, good office, kindness, benefit, favor, pleasure, courtesy. Combler de —s; to load with favors. On oublie plus tôt les —s que les injures; services are sooner forgotten than injuries. Un — n’est jamais perdu; a kindness is never thrown away.
bienfait-eur, n.m., -rice, n.f., benefactor, benefactress, patron.
bien-fonds, n.m., (—s-—) landed property.
bienheureu-x, -se, adj., happy, fortunate, blest, blissful; blessed.
biennal, -e (bi-èn-nal), adj., biennial.
bien que, conj., though, although. Bien qu’il le sache, il n’en parle pas; although he knows it, he says nothing about it. Si —; so that.
bienséance, n.f., decency, decorum, propriety, seemliness; conveniency; manners. Garder la —, les —s; to observe decorum.
bienséant, -e, adj., decent, becoming, fitting, seemly, beseeming, decorous, fit.
☉bien-tenant, n.m., -e, n.f., (—-—s) (jur.) person in possession.