Beehive
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbiËhaɪv/
Full definition of beehive
Noun
beehive
(plural beehives)- An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.
- A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer. Also, a style of hat.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter Foreword, A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, ....
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, page 179)By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast.
Synonyms
- (home of bees): hive
- (man-made structure): hive
- (busy workplace): hive of activity
- (hairstyle): B-52