Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A place where bees and beehives are kept, especially a place where bees are raised for their honey.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a bee-house containing a number of beehives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A place where bees and their hives are kept.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a shed containing a number of beehives

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin apiārium, beehive, from apis, bee.]

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17th Century, from Latin apiārium, from apis ("bee").

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