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beekeeper

[ bee-kee-per ]

noun

  1. a person who raises honeybees; apiculturist.


beekeeper

/ ˈbiːˌkiːpə /

noun

  1. a person who keeps bees for their honey; apiarist


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Derived Forms

  • ˈbeeˌkeeping, noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of beekeeper1

First recorded in 1810–20; bee 1 + keeper

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Example Sentences

When his grandfather died, he left Burt a small sum of money, which the beekeeper used to purchase a plot of land in rural Maine.

Burt called on his beekeeper pal, who scooped up the bees from the fencepost with his bare hands, and dumped them into a hive.

“Secret Service officers huddled in the guard booth” until the official beekeeper took the bees down with a squirt bottle.

She was expelled from the science academy where she worked and then made her living as a beekeeper and translator.

Greenford, near Harrow-on-the-Hill, had quite recently a worthy inhabitant who was a gardener and presumably a beekeeper also.

The price of queens will be fifty cents for one, and not more than three will be furnished to each beekeeper.

Given three pure Italian queens to start with, a beekeeper may easily re-queen his whole bee-yard in the course of a year.

If not already done the beekeeper should at once make his final preparations towards a successful wintering of bees.

“You were a wonderful beekeeper when you were a boy, granddad,” she insisted.

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