Usually means: Structure housing bees; busy community.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hive: Merriam-Webster
  2. hive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hive, hive: Wordnik
  7. hive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hive: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. hive: Wiktionary
  10. hive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. hive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. hive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. hive: Dictionary.com
  14. hive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. hive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. H.I.V.E, H.I.V.E. (Arrowverse), H.I.V.E. (series), HIVE (ISP), Hive (Transformers), Hive (comics), Hive (disambiguation), Hive (game), Hive (song), Hive, The HIVE, The Hive (Card and Johnston novel), The Hive (Cela novel), The Hive (Stargate Atlantis), The Hive (TV series), The Hive (TV show), The Hive (novella), The Hive (studio), The Hive (video game), The Hive (website), The Hive, The hive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Hive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. hive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. hive: Rhymezone
  20. hive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. hive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. hive: FreeDictionary.org
  23. hive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. hive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hive: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hive: Netlingo
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. hive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. hive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HiVE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. hive: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hive: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Hive, hi've, hive: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hived as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
noun:  The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
noun:  A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
noun:  (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
verb:  (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
verb:  (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
verb:  (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
verb:  (entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
noun:  An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.

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