Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - been

1 the past participle of be 2 have/has been a) used to say that someone has gone to a place and come back  (I've never been to Japan.) have been to do sth  (Have you been to see the Van Gogh exhibition yet?) b) BrE used to say that someone has come to a place and left again  (The postman hasn't been yet.)  (- see go1) 3 been there, done that spoken used to say that you are no longer interested in doing something, because you already have a lot of experience of it