hive
/haɪv/noun, verb1 syllable
Hive means: a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees.
Synonyms for hive1
noun, as in a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
beehive
noun, as in a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
beehive
What does hive mean?6
noun
1
a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
2
a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
3
a teeming multitude
verb
1
store, like bees“bees hive honey and pollen”
2
move together in a hive or as if in a hive“The bee swarms are hiving”
3
gather into a hive“The beekeeper hived the swarm”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with hive?13
Hive in a sentence
- We lived in a cramped, dim house which was as small as a hive.AlanF_US
- After honey, beeswax is the second most important hive product from an economic standpoint.Hybrid
- On average, each hive had eighty pounds of honey.AlanF_US
- Bees communicate the location of food by carrying odor samples back to the hive.CM
- You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.horsebones
- The hive was taken over by a cuckoo bee.rul
- The bees are zooming out of the hive.AlanF_US
- There can be only one queen in the hive.Beliashas
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of hive
as a noun
- plural
- hives
as a verb
- past tense
- hived
- present participle
- hiving
- third-person singular
- hives
- past participle
- hived