Dictionary Entry
hive
hive is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
- 2noun
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- 3noun
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
- 4transitive verb
To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.
- 5transitive verb
To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
- 6intransitive verb
To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
- 7noun
a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
Synonyms
- 8noun
a teeming multitude
- 9noun
a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
Synonyms
- 10verb
gather into a hive
"The beekeeper hived the swarm"
- 11verb
move together in a hive or as if in a hive
"The bee swarms are hiving"
- 12verb
store, like bees
"bees hive honey and pollen"
"He hived lots of information"
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