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Meaning of mother-hive | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. the principal or source hive of a colony of bees
  2. a location similarly serving as the source of a group of people
    idiomatic

Equivalents

Deutsch Leibbiene

Examples

“A mother-hive of bees is 24 pence in value.”
“[John Whitman] came over in the True Love in 1640 to America and lived in Weymouth, Mass., which place became the mother-hive of the New Englanders of the name.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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