Definitions for BEE
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. beenoun

   any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

2. beenoun

   a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. Beenoun

   someone connected with Barnet Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Bye Bee

   Etymology: come immediately from the Saxon, by, bying , i. e. a dwelling. Edmund Gibson Camden.

2. BEEnoun

   Etymology: beo, Saxon.

   1. The animal that makes honey, remarkable for its industry and art.

   So work the honey bees,
   Creatures that, by a ruling nature, teach
   The art of order to a peopled kingdom. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   From the Moorish camp,
   There has been heard a distant humming noise,
   Like bees disturb’d, and arming in their hives. Dryden.

   A company of poor insects, whereof some are bees, delighted with flowers, and their sweetness; others beetles, delighted with other viands. John Locke.

   2. An industrious and careful person. This signification is only used in familiar language.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bee

   Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are presently considered a clade, called Anthophila. There are over 16,000 known species of bees in seven recognized biological families. Some species – including honey bees, bumblebees, and stingless bees – live socially in colonies while most species (>90%) – including mason bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees, and sweat bees – are solitary. Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants. The most common bees in the Northern Hemisphere are the Halictidae, or sweat bees, but they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies. Bees range in size from tiny stingless bee species, whose workers are less than 2 millimetres (0.08 in) long, to Megachile pluto, the largest species of leafcutter bee, whose females can attain a length of 39 millimetres (1.54 in). Bees feed on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for their larvae. Vertebrate predators of bees include primates and birds such as bee-eaters; insect predators include beewolves and dragonflies. Bee pollination is important both ecologically and commercially, and the decline in wild bees has increased the value of pollination by commercially managed hives of honey bees. The analysis of 353 wild bee and hoverfly species across Britain from 1980 to 2013 found the insects have been lost from a quarter of the places they inhabited in 1980.Human beekeeping or apiculture (meliponiculture for stingless bees) has been practised for millennia, since at least the times of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. Bees have appeared in mythology and folklore, through all phases of art and literature from ancient times to the present day, although primarily focused in the Northern Hemisphere where beekeeping is far more common. In Mesoamerica, the Mayans have practiced large-scale intensive meliponiculture since pre-Columbian times.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bee

   A bee is a flying insect known for its role in pollination and producing honey and beeswax. Known for living in complex social structures in many species, they are characterized by their black and yellow bodies, hairy bodies and their painful sting. Bees are found worldwide and there are about 20,000 known species.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Bee

   p. p. of Be; -- used for been

2. Beenoun

   an insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee

3. Beenoun

   a neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee

4. Beenoun

   pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks

WikidataRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. Bee

   Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae. Bees have a long proboscis that enables them to obtain the nectar from flowers. They have antennae almost universally made up of 13 segments in males and 12 in females, as is typical for the superfamily. Bees all have two pairs of wings, the hind pair being the smaller of the two; in a very few species, one sex or caste has relatively short wings that make flight difficult or impossible, but none are wingless. The smallest bee is Trigona minima, a stingless bee whose workers are about 2.1 mm long. The largest bee in the world is Megachile pluto, a leafcutter bee whose females can attain a length of 39 mm. Members of the family Halictidae, or sweat bees, are the most common type of bee in the Northern Hemisphere, though they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Bee

   bē, n. a four-winged insect that makes honey: (U.S.) a gathering of persons to unite their labour for the benefit of one individual or family, or for some joint amusement or exercise, as 'a quilting bee,' 'a husking bee,' 'a spelling bee' (from the bee's habit of combined labour).—Compound words are Bee′-flow′er, Bee′-gar′den, Bee′-house, Bee′-mas′ter.—ns. Bee′-bread, the pollen of flowers collected by bees as food for their young; Bee′-eat′er, a brightly-plumaged family of birds nearly allied to the kingfisher, which feeds on bees; Bee′-glue, the soft glutinous matter by which bees fix their combs to the hive; Bee′hive, a case or box in which bees are kept, of straw-work, wood, &c.—Scotch Bee-skep.—adj. shaped like a beehive, dome-shaped.—ns. Bee′-line, the most direct road from one point to another, like the honey-laden bee's way home to the hive; Bee′-moth, a species of moth whose larvæ are very destructive to young bees; Bees′wax, the wax secreted by bees, and used by them in constructing their cells.—v.t. to polish with beeswax.—n. Bees′wing, a filmy crust of tartar formed in port and some other wines after long keeping.—adj. Bees′winged, so old as to show beeswing.—A bee in one's bonnet, a whimsical or crazy fancy on some point. [A. S. béo; Ger. biene.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. bee

   A ring or hoop of metal.--Bees of the bowsprit. (See BEE-BLOCKS.)

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. bee

   A type of insect.

   Bees are so important on the planet to create food.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BEE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bee is ranked #7434 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bee surname appeared 4,480 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Bee.
   
   66.8% or 2,994 total occurrences were White.
   16.7% or 749 total occurrences were Black.
   9.8% or 440 total occurrences were Asian.
   2.6% or 120 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.3% or 106 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.5% or 71 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Hymenopterous Insect
   • Social Gathering

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'BEE' in Nouns Frequency: #2620

How to pronounce BEE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say BEE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of BEE in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of BEE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of BEE in a Sentence

1. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders:

   TBS also issued an apology shortly after Bee's tweet : Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the vile and inappropriate language Samantha Bee used about Ivanka Trump last night. Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it.

2. Theresa Dellinger:

   If someone is susceptible to bee stings, treat it like one, go ahead and seek medical treatment, if you have had bad reactions to other insects in the past.

3. Vijay Samuel Benjamin:

   When you feel like Giving Up ... TRUST GOD - He will help you roar like a Lion... soar like an eagle... and even sting like a Bee... above all he will help you to be the best that you can BE !!!

4. Chuzy:

   Respect people with honey,they must have had their fair share of bee stings

5. Janine Detore:

   One of my friend’s daughters is 17 years old and she has breast cancer. She and anyone her age would love that shirt. As a matter of fact, she owns that BOO BEE shirt, breast-cancer awareness is what we should be focusing on. Not just the shirt.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=BEE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bee
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=BEE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BEE
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=BEE
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=BEE
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=BEE
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html