hive

CEFRB1

/haɪv/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A home made by bees for raising young and storing honey.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

Examples

  • Bees communicate the location of food by carrying odor samples back to the hive.

  • The bees are zooming out of the hive.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

  2. A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.

  3. A section of the registry.

More examples

In context

  • You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

  • 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities

  • to hive a swarm of bees

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more.