hive

noun

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\ ˈhīv

Definition of hive

(Entry 1 of 2)

1a : a container for housing honeybees

b : the usually aboveground nest of bees

2 : a colony of bees

3 : a place swarming with activity

hive

verb

hived; hiving

Definition of hive (Entry 2 of 2)

intransitive verb

1 of bees : to enter and take possession of a hive

2 : to reside in close association

transitive verb

1 : to collect into a hive

2 : to store up in or as if in a hive

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Noun The house was a hive of activity as we prepared for the party.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Contact a licensed pest control professional if a wasp decides to build a hive on your house. — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021 Mother Teresa was canonized in 2016 — as a hive of psychological abuse and coercion. — Michelle Goldberg, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021 All those brilliant minds, working as a hive, obeying the commands from above. — Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 May 2021 Soft-spoken and intensely focused, Marty didn’t strike me as the kind of editor who habitually roamed the open-plan hive of reporters’ desks, hiking up his khakis for an off-the-cuff chat. — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021 Honey bee workers, for instance, start out as nurse bees that stay in the hive and tend to the brood and the queen. — Yao-hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021 Everyone lives in this hive of constant communication. — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 4 Mar. 2021 The 2021 Fort Lauderdale Air Show was a buzzing hive of activity as pilots got up close and personal with a crowd that slowly swelled along the beach as Saturday afternoon flew by. — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 8 May 2021 Estatuas cave in northern Spain was a hive of activity 105,000 years ago. — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021

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