beehive
/ˈbiːhaɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.89 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A particular style of hat.
noun
A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
noun
In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
Example Sentences
- "The key-hole was still their port of egress and regress, and it resembled the aperture of a bee-hive, on a sunny day in June."
- "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,[…]."
- "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."
- "Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'"
- "In New Zealand, this approach is taken one step forward in that Ministers physically sit together up in the beehive, as their building is known, rather than being based in the Departments."
- "As with other major buildings the beehive demonstrated the need for a standardized building drawing practice which could be applied — and understood"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: beehyve