Definitions for BEE

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BEE bee

Spelling: [bee]

IPA: /bi/

Bee is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 7 anagrams from letters in BEE (bee).

Definitions for BEE

noun

1. any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebees, honeybees, etc.
2. the common honeybee, Apis mellifera.
3. a community social gathering in order to perform some task, engage in a contest, etc.:
4. Also called bee block. Nautical. a piece of hardwood, bolted to the side of a bowsprit, through which to reeve stays.
5. Obsolete. a metal ring or bracelet.

Idioms

1. have a bee in one's bonnet, to be obsessed with one idea. to have eccentric or fanciful ideas or schemes:
2. put the bee on, Informal. to try to obtain money from, as for a loan or donation:
3. the bee's knees, Older Slang. (especially in the 1920s) a person or thing that is wonderful, great, or marvelous:

Origin of BEE

before 1000; Middle English be(e); Old English bīo, bēo; cognate with Dutch bij, Old Saxon bī, bini, Old High German bīa, bini (German Biene), Old Norse bȳ; with other suffixes, Lithuanian b

Examples for BEE

But the good ship sped like any bee that knows the way home.

The bee Pollen juice looked appetizing and resembled a juice I routinely enjoy that consists of pineapple, apple, and lime.

Napoleon withdrew his hand as sharply as if a bee amid the fruit had stung him.

How could anyone think that their dislike of the bee Gees made anything about Disco Demolition Night acceptable?

I asked, for it might have been a bird, a bird-like moth, or a bee.

His palace was as yellow a home as a dandelion to a bee, but not half so sweet.

A bee entered one of the chambers with a prophecy of flowers.

If someone put a gun to your head and said, ‘Find the bee Gees in 30 seconds,’ you could do it.

And, of course, a rebuke to our current politics and especially our president, who seems unable to prod a bee to buzz.

After determining that the bee pollen and mushroom broth were inedible, the “detox” quickly went downhill.