hive
pronunciation
How to pronounce hive in British English:
UK [haɪv]
How to pronounce hive in American English:
US [haɪv]
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- Noun:
- a teeming multitude
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
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- Verb:
- store, like bees
- move together in a hive or as if in a hive
- gather into a hive
Word Origin
- hive
- hive: [OE] Hive comes ultimately from Indo- European *keup-, which denoted ‘round container, bowl’ and also produced Greek kúpellon ‘drinking vessel’, Latin cūpa ‘barrel’ (source of English coop, cooper, and cupola), and its post-classical offshoot cuppa (whence English cup). (A variant of the Indo-European base was the source of English head.) The Germanic descendant of *keup- was *khūf-, from which came Old Norse húfr ‘ship’s hull’ and English hive.=> coop, cooper, cupola, cup, head
- hive (n.)
- Old English hyf "beehive," from Proto-Germanic *hufiz (cognates: Old Norse hufr "hull of a ship"), from PIE *keup- "round container, bowl" (cognates: Sanskrit kupah "hollow, pit, cave," Greek kypellon "cup," Latin cupa "tub, cask, vat"). Figurative sense of "swarming, busy place" is from 1630s. As a verb, of bees, etc., "to form themselves into a hive," c. 1400; "to put bees in a hive," mid-15c.
Example
- 1. It was a live-in hive dream come true .
- 2. The bees return to the hive unharmed and the venom is collected to be used in creams .
- 3. What people must remember is that one hive quickly become two , two become four and four become eight .
- 4. But not all of the hive members depart .
- 5. Use the same tactics as in the northern hive : ground troops first to take out anti-air structures , then vikings fl ying in close support .