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1. A teeming multitude
    
2. A man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
   - beehive
    
3. A structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
   - beehive

1. Store, like bees
   "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information"
    
2. Move together in a hive or as if in a hive
   "The bee swarms are hiving"
    
3. Gather into a hive
   "The beekeeper hived the swarm"

Derived forms: hiving, hives, hived

See also: lay away, put in

Type of: assemble, collect, concourse, foregather, forgather, garner, gather, hive away, lay in, meet, multitude, nest, pull together, put in, receptacle, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, throng

Part of: apiary, bee house

Encyclopedia: Hive, Singapore