Definitions for bees

bees bee

Spelling: [bee]
IPA: /bi/

Bees is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in bees (bees).

Definitions for bees

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 bees

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 bees

When he struck, Brown wrote, “The bees will begin to swarm.”

"We've got the bees working overtime for us," a scout called back.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated flees do it—thousands and thousands and thousands of times a day.

One Libyan intelligence source has likened it to a “swarm of bees” accepting a new queen bee.

For her he had robbed the bees' nest that very day, and I had but partaken of the spoil.

They were densely crowded aft, and swarmed upon the poop-deck like bees.

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

We are for you,—we trees and grass and birds and bees and flowers.

The bees Laline Paull (Ecco) This arresting debut novel is a daring dystopian story set in a beehive.

Did they not, at their own church, cluster together like bees, when they saw me enter it?

Word Value for bees
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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