hive

1. 1.

   store, like bees

   “bees hive honey and pollen”

   “He hived lots of information”

   Broaderstore
2. 2.

   move together in a hive or as if in a hive

   “The bee swarms are hiving”

   Broadermeet
3. 3.

   gather into a hive

   “The beekeeper hived the swarm”

   Broadergather

Other forms of hive

plural

hives·

past tense

hived·

present participle

hiving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hive

What does hive mean?

hive means "a teeming multitude". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hive?

hive has 1 syllable: hive. In IPA it is /ˈhaɪv/.

What is another word for hive?

Close synonyms include beehive, beehive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hive a common word?

hive is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hive?

1 word rhymes with hive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.