Definitions for hives

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Spelling: [hahyvz]

IPA: /haɪvz/

Hives is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in hives (ehisv).

Definitions for hives

noun

1. any of various eruptive conditions of the skin, as the wheals of urticaria.
2. a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
3. the colony of bees inhabiting a hive.
4. something resembling a beehive in structure or use.
5. a place swarming with busy occupants:
6. 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 hives

1490-1500; orig. Scots; of obscure origin

Examples for hives

Merely by thrusting them forth from the hives, into the Outer Cold!

He is financially successful and his only debt is school loans but the thought of a household budget spreadsheet gives him hives.

One very cold winter I wrapped up one of my hives with a shawl.

Forty or fifty hives are then laid in a cart, and the owner takes them to distant places where the bees may feed and work.

That kind of slightly over-anxious, wrapping up of objects in connoisseurship brings me out in hives.

Already our hives reach into the Earth a distance of eight miles.

It's like bees; they leave their hives on the decease of any person.

Because beekeepers have responded to the loss of hives by creating new ones.

Despite the problems, the number of hives hasn't fallen since CCD first showed up in 2006.

I refer here mostly to the debt-ceiling fiasco, the thought of which still gives me hives.