hive
/haɪv/ noun C1- A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
- A section of the registry.
Plural hives
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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As to the Admiralty—it is buzzing like an overturned bee-hive.
When he reached the hollow of the tree, he found a hive full of honey.
Roll me into the hives of the wild bees that I may be stung to death, and bury me with the Hyaena, for I am most miserable of bears!
Morrel’s daughter, and had remained with him in spite of the efforts of his friends to induce him to withdraw; the other was an old one-eyed cashier, called “Cocles,” or “Cock-eye,” a nickname given him by the young men who used to throng this vast now almost deserted bee-hive, and which had so completely replaced his real name that he would not, in all probability, have replied to anyone who addressed him by it.
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