noun, verb, hived, hiv⋅ing.| 1. | a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive. |
| 2. | the colony of bees inhabiting a hive. |
| 3. | something resembling a beehive in structure or use. |
| 4. | a place swarming with busy occupants: a hive of industry. |
| 5. | a swarming or teeming multitude. |
| 6. | to gather into or cause to enter a hive. |
| 7. | to shelter as in a hive. |
| 8. | to store up in a hive. |
| 9. | to store or lay away for future use or enjoyment. |
| 10. | (of bees) to enter a hive. |
| 11. | to live together in or as in a hive. |
| 12. | hive off, British. to become transferred from the main body of a commercial or industrial enterprise through the agency of new ownership. |
