beehive
pronunciation
How to pronounce beehive in British English:
UK [ˈbi:haɪv]
How to pronounce beehive in American English:
US [ˈbiˌhaɪv]
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- Noun:
- any workplace where people are very busy
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a hairdo resembling a beehive
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
Word Origin
- beehive (n.)
- early 14c., from bee + hive (n.). As the name of a hairstyle, attested from 1960 (the style itself said to be popular from 1958). As the name of a star cluster in the constellation Cancer, from 1840 (see Praesepe).
Example
- 1. There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee .
- 2. It 's also my headquarters . I love it here , it 's like my beehive .
- 3. Also see : the spirit of the beehive , victor erice 's similarly eerie film of 1977 .
- 4. For the last few years now , wayan and tutti have been living on their own-all alone , in the beehive of bali !
- 5. By the time the city fell , the safety zone -- its borders lined by white flags and sheets marked with the red cross symbol within a red circle -- was a swarming " human beehive " of 250000 refugees .