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{
"term": "bee",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a black and yellow flying insect that can sting (= touch your skin and make you feel a sharp pain).Bees live in large groups and make honey (= a sweet sticky substance that is good to eat).",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Bees were buzzing in the clover."
},
{
"text": "a swarm of bees"
},
{
"text": "a bee sting"
},
{
"text": "Butterflies, flies and bees pollinate flowers."
},
{
"text": "He was stung by an angry bee."
},
{
"text": "Lavender attracts bees."
},
{
"text": "The bees swarmed around the hive."
}
],
"topics": ["Insects, worms, etc."],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["bumble", "honey", "killer"],
"… of bees": ["swarm"],
"verb + bee": ["attract"],
"bee + verb": ["buzz", "hum", "sting (somebody)"],
"bee + noun": ["hive", "sting", "keeper"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a meeting in a group where people combine work, competition and pleasure",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a sewing bee"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["quilting", "spelling"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very busy",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "an excellent person or thing",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She thinks she's the bee's knees *(= she has a very high opinion of herself)*."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the basic facts about sex, especially as told to children",
"labels": "(humorous)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to think or talk about something all the time and to think that it is very important",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Our teacher has a bee in his bonnet about punctuation."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/biː/",
"audio": "be/bee/bee__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/biː/",
"audio": "be/bee/bee__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English bēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bij and German dialect Beie."
}