bee
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From Old English bēo, from Proto-Germanic *bēō, from Proto-Germanic *bhī-. Cognate with Dutch bij, Upper German Beie, Swedish bi; and (from Indo-European) with Latvian bite, Russian пчела (pčelá), Old Irish bech.
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bee (plural bees)
- A flying insect, of the order Hymenoptera, superfamily Apoidea.
- A contest, especially for spelling, see spelling bee.
- A gathering for a specific purpose, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
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insect
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spelling contest — see spelling bee
gathering
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(Northern development of) Old English bēah.
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bee (plural bees)
- (obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
- And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 16:
- ...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees, the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
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Variant spellings.
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bee
- Archaic spelling of the verb be.
- Quotations
- 1604 Reverend Cawdrey Table Aleph: held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’
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bee (plural bees)
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name of the letter B, b
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bee
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Declension of bee (type maa)
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bee!
- baa (sound of a sheep)
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- IPA: /beː/
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bee
- (anatomy) vagina
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bee
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bee
- To be.
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bee
- by means of, by means of it
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bee
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bee
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