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Definition of Hive
Hive

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.

To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.

To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

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Hive Quotations

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Jean Cocteau

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
Karel Capek

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.
Thomas Shepard

Hive Translations

hive in German is Bienenstock
hive in Italian is alveare
hive in Norwegian is bikube
hive in Spanish is colmena
hive in Swedish is bikupa


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