beehive
To fill with busy activityTo fill (a place) with busy activity.
» Stay away from the beehive.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(rare, transitive)To fill (a place) with busy activity.
(rare, transitive)To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.
Examples
30 sentencesStay away from the beehive.
Ziri has beehives in the garden.
The place is a beehive of activity.
There was a beehive on the tree.
Inside the beehive, it smelled like honey.
ruВнутри улья пахло мёдом. — carlosalberto
Origin
From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
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Forms
beehives, beehiving, beehived, beehivedWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.