Hive Definition
hīv
hived, hives, hiving
noun
hives
A structure for housing domesticated honeybees.
American Heritage
A box or other shelter for a colony of domesticated bees.
Webster's New World
Any structure made or used by a colony of bees, wasps, etc. as a nesting place.
Webster's New World
A colony of bees living in a hive; swarm.
Webster's New World
A place swarming with activity.
American Heritage
verb
hived, hives, hiving
To put or gather (bees) into a hive.
Webster's New World
To enter a hive.
Webster's New World
To live together in or as in a hive.
Webster's New World
To store up (honey) in a hive.
Webster's New World
To store up for future use; garner.
Webster's New World
idiom
hive off
- to depart from a group
- to separate from the whole
hived off the first graders to another playground
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hive
Origin of Hive
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From Middle English hyfe, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-Germanic *hūbī (compare Dutch huif ‘beehive’, Danish dialect huv ‘ship's hull’), from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”) (compare Latin cūpa ‘tub, vat’, Ancient Greek κύπη (kyphē) ‘gap, hole’, κύπελλον (kýpellon) ‘beaker’, Sanskrit kū́pa ‘cave’), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see .
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English hȳf
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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