bee
[noun]
Synonyms: caprice, boutade, conceit, crotchet, fancy, freak, humor, megrim, vagary, whim

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Related Words: idea, impulse

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

bee /biː/ noun [countable]
[Language: Old English; Origin: beo]

1. a black and yellow flying insect that makes honey and can sting you:
a swarm of bees
a bee sting ⇒ bumblebee

2. have a bee in your bonnet (about something) informal to think something is so important, so necessary etc that you keep mentioning it or thinking about it:
Dad’s got a bee in his bonnet about saving electricity.

3. sewing/quilting etc bee American English informal an occasion when people, usually women, meet in order to do a particular type of work

4. a busy bee spoken someone who enjoys being busy or active

5. be the bee’s knees spoken old-fashioned to be very good:
She thought the party was just the bee’s knees.
⇒ spelling bee, ⇒ the birds and the bees at bird(3)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

bee
noun
ADJ. bumble (also bumblebee), honey, killer | queen, worker | angry He was stung by thousands of angry bees.
QUANT. swarm
BEE + VERB buzz, hum A bee buzzed in my ear.
sting (sb) | fly, swarm The bees swarmed round the hive.
BEE + NOUN hive (also beehive) | sting | keeper (also bee-keeper)

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

bee
bi:
See: birds and the bees

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲