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Word entry · 4 letters

hive

Best crossword clue

"Bee home"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /haɪv/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ehivStarts with HEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1H2I3V4E

Definitions

  1. gather into a hive

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • First, for thy Bees a quiet Station find, / And lodge 'em under Covert of the Wind: / For Winds, when homeward they return, will drive / The loaded Carriers from their Ev'ning Hive.
  • When that the general is not like the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair, what honey is expected?
  • There the horde of Roman robbers mock at a barbarous adversary. / There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.

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