Definition of Bee

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Definition of Bee

Bee

p. p. of Be; -- used for been.

An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.

A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.

Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.

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Bee Quotations

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Michael Jackson

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Rodney Dangerfield

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
Harold MacMillan

Bee Translations

bee in Danish is bi
bee in Dutch is honingbij, bij
bee in French is abeille
bee in German is Wettbewerb, Biene, Biene
bee in Italian is ape
bee in Norwegian is bie
bee in Portuguese is abelha
bee in Spanish is abeja
bee in Swedish is bi

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