Word.ws English Dictionary

hives of industry

hives of industry is the plural of hive of industry.

Meaning of hive of industry

Noun

hive of industry (plural hives of industry)

  1. Synonym of hive of activity.
    • Algiers terminus has three platforms and a rather deserted air. [...] The docks, however, were a veritable hive of industry, and six old G.W.R. engines were helping with the shunting.1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5

Questions about hives of industry

What is hives of industry the plural of?
Hives of industry is the plural of hive of industry.

Words near hives of industry in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hives of industry (page history and authors); hive of industry (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hives of industry.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hives_of_industry. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.