hive

Meaning

Noun

1. A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
2. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
3. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
4. A section of the registry.

Verb

1. (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
2. (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
3. (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
4. (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
5. Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.

Synonyms

beehive

nest

honeycomb

swarm

lay in a stock

store up

flock

nest box

rookery

bike

🚲

battery

🔋

brace

brood

building

boar

🐗

barren

ascension

chowder

cartload

busyness

flush

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comb

comfort

bevy

barrel

business

drove

drift

bury

erst

exaltation

family

👪

field

flight

✈️

den

covey

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

herd

burrow

corps

Translations

ruche

colmena

alveare

Bienenkorb

Bienenstock

rusc

colméia

arnia

bijenkorf

κυψέλη

colmeia

kovan

cortiço

μελίσσι

Pronounced as (IPA)

/haɪv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hyve

Inherited from Old English: hȳf

Cognate with Dutch: huif

Cognate with Latin: cūpa

Cognate with Ancient Greek: κύπη

Cognate with Sanskrit: कूप

In summary

From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”).
See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see https://web.archive.org/web/20150715222122/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.aspx.