Bee

Quick meaning: Bee is a noun meaning (informal, proscribed) Any stinging flying insect, especially a wasp.

Meaning

(informal, proscribed) Any stinging flying insect, especially a wasp.

More Meanings

1. A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
2. A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
3. The name of the Latin script letter B/b.
4. A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
5. Obsolete spelling of be.
6. (obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
7. (obsolete) past participle of be; been

Example Sentences

His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge[…].

An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.

Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.

Bees are the moſt excellent of all Inſects vvhatſoever, and expreſſe both vvorth and vvonder in all their vvaies: […]

Word Forms

• bees
• been

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drone, bumblebee, wasp, honeybee, beehive, apiculture.

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