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Hive

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

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Assemble 76% connected

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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Collect 76% connected

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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Concourse 76% connected

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

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Foregather 76% connected

Same as Forgather.

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Forgather 76% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

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Garner 76% connected

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Multitude 76% connected

A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.

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Nest 76% connected

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

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Receptacle 76% connected

That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.

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Store 76% connected

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

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Throng 76% connected

of Thring

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Narrower term 1

Skep 76% connected

A coarse round farm basket.

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Containing whole 1

Apiary 70% connected

A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.

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Component part 1

Honeycomb 70% connected

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

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See also 2

Store 66% connected

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

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Store 66% connected

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

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Synonym 1

Beehive 92% connected

A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

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