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hives

/haɪvz/

hives noun: itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions. Also the plural of hive.

hives: itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to...
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Noun

hives pl (normally plural, singular hive)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions.
    • So when I was diagnosed with a fairly difficult-to-treat disease called idiopathic angioedema and chronic urticaria (a fancy way of saying we don’t know why you swell and hey, enjoy the 24/7 hives) six months ago, I wasn't quite sure how to cope.2014 January 20, Simona Supekar, “How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease”, in The Atlantic
    • When she recovers enough to look down at her arms [...] she blinks to see them covered in faint, but rising, puffy welts. Hives. She's breaking out in hives.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 108

Also used as

hives is also the plural of hive.

hives is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of hive.

hives meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Kannada

hives in Hindi

पित्ती

hives in Marathi

शीतपित्त, शीतपित्तांना

hives in Bengali

হাইভস

hives in Kannada

ಜೇನುಗೂಡುಗಳು, ಜೇನುಗೂಡುಗಳ
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hives in Nepali
पित्तीहरू

Examples of hives in a sentence

  • The beekeeper collected honey and beeswax from the hives.
  • As a beekeeper (either vocationally or avocationally), there is certain equipment that you will want, such as a bee suit and some hives.
  • Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary.

All 13 example sentences with hives

Synonyms of hives

Forms of hives

singularhive

Origin of hives

Uncertain, but frequently connected with heave, even if such a derivation is phonologically difficult.

See hive

Phrases with hives

Words that rhyme with hives

Questions about hives

What does hives mean?
Hives means itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions.
What is hives in Hindi?
Hives in Hindi is पित्ती. See Hives meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hives?
Hives is a noun.
How do you pronounce hives?
Hives is pronounced /haɪvz/.

Words near hives in the dictionary

  1. hivernate
  2. hivernated
  3. hivernates
  4. hivernating
  5. hivers
  6. hives
  7. hives of activity
  8. hives of industry
  9. hives off
  10. hives up
  11. hiveward

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hives (page history and authors); hives (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hives (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hives (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hives (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hives (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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