Beehive

Quick meaning: Beehive is a noun meaning A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.

Meaning

A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
2. A particular style of hat.
3. A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
4. (nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive.
5. (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
6. (cricket) A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
7. A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.

Example Sentences

Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'

By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:

As with other major buildings the beehive demonstrated the need for a standardized building drawing practice which could be applied — and understood

Alternatively, in many cases the debris can be suppressed by perturbing the debris with a passing spaceship before it stabilizes into the beehive or loaf.

Word Forms

• beehives
• bee-hive
• beehiving
• beehived

Synonyms for beehive

Depending on context, synonyms include hive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hive, swarm, honeybee, bee, auberge, lodge.

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