bee – English noun declension

English noun forms of bee

Noun: bee
Singularbee
Pluralbees

Sample Sentences

  • His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge[…]. [1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:]
  • An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees? [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
  • Ariell: / Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck I, / In a Cowslips bell, I lie, / There I cowch when Owles doe crie, / On the Batts backe I doe flie / after Sommer merrily. / Merrily, merrily, ſhall I liue now / Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:]
  • Bees are the moſt excellent of all Inſects vvhatſoever, and expreſſe both vvorth and vvonder in all their vvaies: […] [1657, Samuel Purchas, “The Excellency of Bees”, in A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects. […], London: […] R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, page 1:]
  • He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive. [1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 12”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone. [2012 March 31, “Subtle poison”, in The Economist:]
  • New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes glued onto their backs. […] “This suggests that most of the foraging that the bees do occurs very close to the hive,” study co-author Margarita López-Uribe, an associate professor of entomology at PSU, told CNN on Monday. [2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2025:]

Nouns inflected like bee

bronchial tree, eye, bee, cheese, tree, knee,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *bijǭ
4. Proto-West Germanic *bijā
5. Old English bēo
6. Middle English be
7. English bee
8. From Middle English be, bee, beo, bey, from Old English bēo, bīo (“bee”), from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijǭ (“bee”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (“bee”).
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with Yola been (“bees”), North Frisian bi (“bee”), West Frisian bij (“bee”), Dutch bij, by (“bee”), German Biene (“bee”), Limburgish Bé, bie (“bee”), Luxembourgish Bei (“bee”), Vilamovian byn (“bee”), West Flemish bieë (“bee”), Yiddish בין (bin, “bee”), Danish and Swedish bi (“bee”), Faroese býfluga (“bee”), Icelandic bý, býfluga (“bee”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk bie (“bee”); also Irish beach, meach (“bee”), Scottish Gaelic beach (“bee; beehive; wasp”), Latin fūcus (“bee”), Latvian bite (“bee”), Lithuanian bitė (“bee”), Belarusian пчала́ (pčalá, “bee”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian пчела́ (pčelá, “bee”), Czech včála, včela (“bee”), Polish pszczoła (“bee”), Serbo-Croatian пчѐла, bčela, pčèla (“bee”), Slovak včela (“bee”), Slovene čebela (“bee”), Ukrainian бджола́ (bdžolá, “bee”), Ossetian биндзӕ (binʒæ), бындз (bynʒ, “fly”), Pashto وينه (waynë́, wenë́, wuynë́, “termite; white ant”). See: Middle English Nouns 'be', Dutch Nouns 'bij', German Nouns 'Biene', Faroese Nouns 'býfluga', Icelandic Nouns 'bý', Irish Nouns 'beach', Latin Nouns 'fūcus', Latvian Nouns 'bite', Czech Nouns 'včála', Polish Nouns 'pszczoła', Slovak Nouns 'včela'.

Verbs referencing "bee"

Latvian Nouns bite, Danish Nouns bi, English Nouns bagel, Irish Nouns beach.