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bee-hive

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A structure where bees live and make honey. The hyphenated form is an older poetic spelling.

Detailed Definition
A bee-hive is the man-made home of bees, used for keeping them and collecting honey. In poetry it can also suggest industry, sweetness, and a busy rural scene.
Example
Example in poetry:
“A bee-hive’s hum shall soothe my ear,” making the hive’s sound part of pastoral calm; Keats hears “the murmurous haunt of flies” in sensuous summer landscapes; “the bee-hive throbbed behind the orchard wall” personifies collective labor through sound; contemporary eco-poetry may use a silent bee-hive to suggest pollinator loss
Additional Notes
The hyphenated form in "A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;" is a specialized spelling that may be less familiar than the modern one-word form.; Found in the poem, A Wish by Samuel Rogers
Also Known As
hive apiary bee colony
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