Hive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /haɪv/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hive is a noun meaning A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
Meaning
A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
More Meanings
- The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
- (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
- (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
- (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
- (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
Example Sentences
to hive a swarm of bees
Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…]
1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities
Word Forms
- hives
- hiving
- hived
Synonyms for hive
Depending on context, synonyms include beehive.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include beehive, apiary, swarm, beetle, daycare, ship.
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