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beehive

Farming
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 beehive is a structure in which a colony of bees lives and stores honey.

Detailed Definition
A beehive is both the dwelling of honeybees and a carefully organised centre of agricultural pollination and honey production. Poets are drawn to its humming sound, geometric combs, golden honey, and intense communal activity. In verse, the hive can symbolise industry, order, cooperation, sweetness, fertility, or a disciplined society. It may also carry darker suggestions of confinement, hierarchy, danger, and the loss of individuality within a collective, making it a versatile rural and political image.
Example
Example in poetry:
The organised life of a beehive can symbolise an industrious and disciplined society; A humming beehive may provide sound imagery for a summer garden or orchard; Honey stored in the hive can represent sweetness produced through collective labour; An angry beehive can become a metaphor for social unrest, danger, or disturbed order.
Additional Notes
A beehive connects agriculture with pollination, honey production, and the organised life of a bee colony. Poets often use its humming as sound imagery and its combs as images of intricate order. The hive may symbolise industry, cooperation, fertility, sweetness, hierarchy, or a society in which individuals serve the collective. A disturbed hive can suggest anger or social unrest. Related concepts include swarm, queen bee, worker bee, honeycomb, orchard, clover, pollination, and apiary.
Also Known As
hive skep
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