Definitions for hive

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Spelling: [hahyv]

IPA: /haɪv/

Hive is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in hive (ehiv).

Definitions for hive

noun

1. a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
2. the colony of bees inhabiting a hive.
3. something resembling a beehive in structure or use.
4. a place swarming with busy occupants:
5. a swarming or teeming multitude.

Verb phrases

1. hive off, British. to become transferred from the main body of a commercial or industrial enterprise through the agency of new ownership.

verb (used with object)

1. to gather into or cause to enter a hive.
2. to shelter as in a hive.
3. to store up in a hive.
4. to store or lay away for future use or enjoyment.

verb (used without object)

1. (of bees) to enter a hive.
2. to live together in or as in a hive.

Origin of hive

before 900; Middle English; Old English hȳf; akin to Old Norse hūfr ship's hull, Latin cūpa vat

Examples for hive

Since the mid-19th century, Sicily has been known as a hive of Mafioso activity.

This conservative, evangelical megachurch, just outside San Diego, is a hive of activity on a Sunday morning.

If any bees remain in the box when taken away, a little smoke will drive them out, and they will quickly return to their own hive.

The drones, as it were, had to rest at their stations, constantly maintaining the hive for the greater good.

Another way is to invert the hive in which the united swarms are to live, and strike the bees of the other hive into it as before.

Burt called on his beekeeper pal, who scooped up the bees from the fencepost with his bare hands, and dumped them into a hive.

When Ali Salameh arrived at Black September headquarters in Beirut, he found a hive of furious activity.

But, as there is no natural ruler of the hive, they meet together and make laws.

The operating-room was a hive of industry, and tongues kept pace with fingers.

And Damascus is the very 309 hive of turbans, green and otherwise.