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beehive
[ bee-hahyv ]
noun
- a crowded, busy place.
- something resembling an artificial beehive in appearance, as a hut or hairdo.
- Also called beehive oven. an oven for converting coal into coke, characterized by its dome-shaped roof.
Beehive
1/ ˈːˌɪ /
noun
- the dome-shaped building that houses sections of Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand
- the New Zealand government
beehive
2/ ˈːˌɪ /
noun
- a man-made receptacle used to house a swarm of bees
- a dome-shaped hair style in which the hair is piled high on the head
- a place where busy people are assembled
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Dressed in a revealing keyhole dress and towering beehive wig, Carpenter comes to Simon Says for the ambience and the chance to dress in drag.
With its upstairs-downstairs dynamic — the “us” and “them” of it is explicitly laid out — large cast and grand beehive setting, it suggests a wackier contemporary American “Gosford Park.”
She said: "You can have sheep on there, you can have wildlife on there, they put in beehives and ponds and all sorts."
The Malibu Feed Bin — the country store where our family sold wildflower honey made from the dozens of beehives we tended in our backyard.
I remember all the beehives in the front row.
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