Bee

/ˈbiː/

Synonyms for "bee" (38 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (8)

Noun(3 words)

apis melliferaassembly bumble

boutade bumblebee caprice conceit cornhusking

Strong matches (11)

crank crotchet drone fancy freak honeybee hornet humor

Noun(3 words)

event gatheringhoney bee

Related words (19)

husking idea impulse insect maggot megrim notion queenqueen beequilting beeraising beevagary wasp whim workeryellow jacket

Noun(3 words)

king of insectspollinatorworker bee

Choosing the right synonym

Closest matches in this entry: apis mellifera, assembly, boutade, bumble, bumblebee.
Sentence evidence is available for bee, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
Ranking signals come from opengloss, moby, derived_reverse, wiktionary, and related lexical sources.

Synonym selection checklist

Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "bee".
Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.

When not to replace "bee"

Keep "bee" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.

If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.

Replacement workflow

1. Preserve meaning

Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "bee" intact in the sentence you are editing.

2. Tune tone

Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.

3. Re-read context

Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.

Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.

Final fit check

After choosing a replacement for "bee", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.

If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "bee" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

18 entries

affair animal arthropod assembly event function gathering hymenopter hymenopteran hymenopteronhymenopterous insectinsect occasion organismsocial affairsocial function

Showing 16 of 18 words.

More specific

9 entries

bumblebeecarpenter beeforaging beehoney beenurse beequilting beescout beespelling beesweat bee

Collocations

6 entries

bee colonybee stingforaging beehoney beequeen beeworker bee

Inflections

1 entries

bees

Derivations

3 entries

beekeeper beekeeping beelike

Translations

448 translations across 344 languages.

Abenaki

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ômwa noun (insect)

Abkhaz

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ашьха noun (insect)

Adyghe

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бжьэ noun (insect)

Afar

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diidaleyta noun (insect)

Afrikaans

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by noun (insect)

Agutaynen

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boyong-boyong noun (insect)

Ahom

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𑜇𑜢𑜤𑜂𑜫 noun (insect)

Akawaio

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akʉ noun (insect)

Albanian

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bletë noun (insect)
mjalcë noun (insect)

Aleut

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aanasnaadax noun (insect)

Ambonese Malay

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niri noun (insect)

Amharic

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ንብ noun (insect)

Ancient Greek

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μέλισσα noun (insect)
μέλιττα noun (insect)

Andi

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пера noun (insect)

Antillean Creole

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miyèl noun (insect)
mouch a myèl noun (insect)
myèl noun (insect)

Arabic

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نحل noun (insect)
نحلة noun (insect)
نحلة noun (insect)
نَحْل noun (insect)

Aragonese

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abella noun (insect)

Aramaic

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ܕܒܫܬܐ noun (insect)

Archi

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тӏантӏ noun (insect)

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Aromanian

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alghinã noun (insect)

Assamese

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মধুকৰ noun (insect)
মৌমাখি noun (insect)

Asturian

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abeya noun (insect)

Avar

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на noun (insect)

Aymara

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mamuraya noun (insect)

Azerbaijani

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arı noun (insect)

Balinese

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nyawan noun (insect)

Banjarese

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wanyi noun (insect)

Bashkir

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бал ҡорто noun (insect)

Basque

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erle noun (insect)

Bats

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ფუტკარ noun (insect)

Bau Bidayuh

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bonyih noun (insect)

Bavarian German

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Imp noun (insect)

Belarusian

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пчала́ noun (insect)

Bemba

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buci noun (insect)

Bengali

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মৌমাছি noun (insect)

Bhojpuri

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मधुमाखी noun (insect)

Bikol Central

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putyukan noun (insect)

Bislama

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bi noun (insect)

Blin

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laxla noun (insect)

Breton

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gwenan noun (insect)
gwenanenn noun (insect)

Brunei Malay

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penyangat noun (insect)

Buginese

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awani noun (insect)

Bulgarian

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пчела́ noun (insect)

Burmese

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ပျား noun (insect)

Buryat

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зүгы noun (insect)

Cahuilla

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'evéexa' noun (insect)

Caló

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jernimachí noun (insect)

Campidanese Sardinian

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abi noun (insect)

Carpathian Rusyn

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пчола noun (insect)

Catalan

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abella noun (insect)

Cebuano

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putyokan noun (insect)

Central Atlas Tamazight

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ⵜⵉⵣⵉⵣⵡⵉⵜ noun (insect)

Central Dusun

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pomosuon noun (insect)

Central Franconian

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Bien noun (insect)

Central Kurdish

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ھەنگ noun (insect)

Central Melanau

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anyi noun (insect)

Chamicuro

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kasenujsi noun (insect)

Chechen

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накхармоза noun (insect)

Cherokee

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ᏩᏚᎵᏏ noun (insect)

Cheyenne

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háhnoma noun (insect)

Chichewa

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njuchi noun (insect)

Chinese

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мифынзы noun (insect)
мифыр noun (insect)
фыр noun (insect)
蜂 noun (insect)

Chinese Cantonese

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蜜蜂 noun (insect)

Chinese Mandarin

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蜜蜂 noun (insect)
蠟蜂 /蜡蜂 noun (insect)

Chinook Jargon

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antʰiyeɬ noun (insect)

Church Slavic

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бъчела noun (insect)
бьчела noun (insect)
ⰱⱏⱍⰵⰾⰰ noun (insect)
ⰱⱐⱍⰵⰾⰰ noun (insect)

Chuvash

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пыл хурчӗ noun (insect)

Cornish

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gwenen noun (insect)
gwenenen noun (insect)

Corsican

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aba noun (insect)
apa noun (insect)

Cree

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aamoo noun (insect)
ᐋᒨ noun (insect)

Crimean Tatar

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arı noun (insect)
balqurt noun (insect)

Czech

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včela noun (insect)

Dalmatian

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juop noun (insect)
juopa noun (insect)

Danish

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bi noun (insect)

Darkinjung

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nyittik noun (insect)

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ma noun (insect)

Drung

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Duala

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ndômbi noun (insect)

Dutch

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bij noun (insect)
honingbij noun (insect)
imme noun (insect)

Dutch Low Saxon

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iem noun (insect)

Eastern Arrernte

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urltampe noun (insect)

Eastern Min Chinese

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蜜蜂 noun (insect)

Egyptian

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bit-t:Z1 noun (insect)

Erzya

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мекш noun (insect)

Esperanto

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abelo noun (insect)

Estonian

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mesilane noun (insect)

Evenki

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ётыла noun (insect)

Extremaduran

3 entries

abehita noun (insect)
obispa noun (insect)
ovispa noun (insect)

Faroese

1 entries

býfluga noun (insect)

Fiji Hindi

1 entries

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Finnish

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Franco-Provençal

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French

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abeille noun (insect)

Friulian

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âf noun (insect)
âv noun (insect)

Galician

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abella noun (insect)

Gallo

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avètt noun (insect)

Gallurese

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abba noun (insect)

Gan Chinese

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Georgian

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German

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Beivogl (Styrian) noun (insect)
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Biine noun (insect)

Gooniyandi

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wida noun (insect)

Greek

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μέλισσα noun (insect)

Greenlandic

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igutsak noun (insect)

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kích'i noun (insect)

Gujarati

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મધમાખી noun (insect)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

myèl noun (insect)

Hakka Chinese

2 entries

糖蜂仔 noun (insect)
蜂仔 noun (insect)

Hausa

1 entries

zuma noun (insect)

Hawaiian

2 entries

nalo noun (insect)
nalo meli noun (insect)

Hebrew

1 entries

דְּבוֹרָה noun (insect)

Herero

1 entries

onyuitkhi noun (insect)

Hiligaynon

1 entries

putyokan noun (insect)

Hindi

1 entries

मधुमक्खी noun (insect)

Hopi

1 entries

momo noun (insect)

Hungarian

1 entries

méh noun (insect)

Icelandic

2 entries

bý noun (insect)
býfluga noun (insect)

Ido

1 entries

abelo noun (insect)

Igbo

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anwụ noun (insect)

Ilocano

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uyokan noun (insect)

Inabaknon

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buwani noun (insect)

Indonesian

2 entries

lebah noun (insect)
tawon noun (insect)

Ingrian

1 entries

mehiläin noun (insect)

Ingush

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накхармоз noun (insect)

Interlingua

2 entries

ape noun (insect)
apicula noun (insect)

Inuktitut

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ᒥᓗᒋᐊᖅ noun (insect)

Iranian Persian

4 entries

اَنْگ noun (insect)
بُوْز noun (insect)
زَنْبور noun (insect)
زَنْبورِ عَسَل noun (insect)

Irish

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beach noun (insect)

Isthmus Zapotec

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bizu noun (insect)

Italian

2 entries

ape noun (insect)
pecchia noun (insect)

Itelmen

1 entries

kzumx noun (insect)

Japanese

2 entries

花蜂 noun (insect)
蜂 noun (insect)

Javanese

2 entries

tawon noun (insect)
ꦠꦮꦺꦴꦤ꧀ noun (insect)

Jeju

1 entries

벌 noun (insect)

Jin Chinese

1 entries

蜜蜂 noun (insect)

Jingpho

1 entries

lagat noun (insect)

Kabardian

1 entries

бжьэ noun (insect)

Kabyle

1 entries

tizizwit noun (insect)

Kalmyk

1 entries

зөг noun (insect)

Kamba

1 entries

nzũkĩ noun (insect)

Kambaata

1 entries

disha noun (insect)

Kanakanabu

1 entries

anu noun (insect)

Kankanaey

1 entries

yukan noun (insect)

Kannada

1 entries

ದುಂಬಿ noun (insect)

Kaonde

1 entries

injuki noun (insect)

Karelian

1 entries

meheläini noun (insect)

Kashmiri

1 entries

تُلٕر noun (insect)

Kashubian

1 entries

pszczoła noun (insect)

Kaska

1 entries

tsʼedāsnāne noun (insect)

Kaurna

1 entries

gadlabarti noun (insect)

Kazakh

1 entries

ара noun (insect)

Khmer

1 entries

ឃ្មុំ noun (insect)

Khvarshi

1 entries

пар noun (insect)

Kikuyu

1 entries

njũkĩ noun (insect)

Kimaragang

1 entries

kawad noun (insect)

Kimbundu

1 entries

nhoki noun (insect)

Kituba

1 entries

nyósi noun (insect)

Kongo

1 entries

nyosi noun (insect)

Korean

2 entries

밀봉 noun (insect)
벌 noun (insect)

Kumyk

1 entries

балжибин noun (insect)

Kyrgyz

4 entries

аары noun (insect)
бал аарысы noun (insect)
причуда noun (insect)
сайран noun (insect)

Ladin

1 entries

ê noun (insect)

Ladino

2 entries

bézba noun (insect)
bízba noun (insect)

Lao

4 entries

ພະມະຣະ noun (insect)
ພະມະໂຣ noun (insect)
ພູມມະຣະ noun (insect)
ເຜິ້ງ noun (insect)

Latgalian

1 entries

bite noun (insect)

Latin

1 entries

apis noun (insect)

Latvian

1 entries

bite noun (insect)

Laz

1 entries

ბუტკუჯი noun (insect)

Limburgish

1 entries

bie noun (insect)

Lingala

1 entries

nzói noun (insect)

Linngithigh

1 entries

malay noun (insect)

Lisu

1 entries

ꓐꓬꓽ noun (insect)

Lithuanian

1 entries

bitė noun (insect)

Lombard

1 entries

avi noun (insect)

Low German

1 entries

Imm noun (insect)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

pcołka noun (insect)

Lozi

1 entries

muka noun (insect)

Luba-Kasai

1 entries

lunyuki noun (insect)

Luba-Katanga

2 entries

lunyuki noun (insect)
nnyikì noun (insect)

Luganda

1 entries

enjuki noun (insect)

Luhya

1 entries

inzushi noun (insect)

Luo

1 entries

kich noun (insect)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Bei noun (insect)

Lü

1 entries

ᦕᦹᧂᧉ noun (insect)

Maasai

2 entries

ol-otórokî noun (insect)
ol-otóròì noun (insect)

Macedonian

1 entries

пчела noun (insect)

Malagasy

1 entries

tantely noun (insect)

Malay

2 entries

lebah noun (insect)
tawon noun (insect)

Malayalam

3 entries

ഇണ്ട noun (insect)
ഘണ്ഡം noun (insect)
ഭസനം noun (insect)

Maltese

1 entries

naħla noun (insect)

Manchu

1 entries

ᡥᡳᠪᠰᡠ ᡝᠵᡝᠨ noun (insect)

Mandinka

1 entries

kumburuŋo noun (insect)

Manx

1 entries

shellan noun (insect)

Maore Comorian

1 entries

nyoshi noun (insect)

Mapudungun

2 entries

diwmeñ noun (insect)
kormeña noun (insect)

Marathi

2 entries

मधमाशी noun (insect)
मधुकर noun (insect)

Marshallese

1 entries

pi noun (insect)

Massachusett

1 entries

ashkeaumooussog noun (insect)

Mazanderani

1 entries

کنگلی noun (insect)

Megleno-Romanian

1 entries

albină noun (insect)

Mi'kmaq

1 entries

amu noun (insect)

Middle English

1 entries

bee noun (insect)

Mingrelian

1 entries

სკა noun (insect)

Mirandese

1 entries

abeilha noun (insect)

Mizo

2 entries

khawivah noun (insect)
khuai noun (insect)

Moksha

1 entries

меш noun (insect)

Mon

1 entries

သာဲ noun (insect)

Mongolian

2 entries

зөгий noun (insect)
ᠵᠥᠭᠡᠢ noun (insect)

Mpade

1 entries

mam noun (insect)

Murrinh-Patha

1 entries

pangkima noun (insect)

Mwani

1 entries

nyuki noun (insect)

Māori

2 entries

ngaro huruhuru noun (insect)
pī noun (insect)

Nahuatl

1 entries

xicohtli noun (insect)

Nanticoke

1 entries

aa-moak noun (insect)

Navajo

2 entries

tsísʼná noun (insect)
tłʼéʼííłnííʼ noun (insect)

Ndzwani Comorian

1 entries

nyoshi class 9/10 noun (insect)

Neapolitan

1 entries

apa noun (insect)

Nepali

1 entries

मौरी noun (insect)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

nyoshi noun (insect)

Norman

2 entries

bourdon à myi noun (insect)
moûque à myi noun (insect)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

hing noun (insect)

Northern Min Chinese

1 entries

糖蜂 noun (insect)

Northern Sami

1 entries

mieđašeatni noun (insect)

Northern Sotho

1 entries

nôse noun (insect)

Norwegian

1 entries

bie noun (insect)

Nuosu

1 entries

ꐚ noun (insect)

Nyamwezi

1 entries

nzuki noun (insect)

Occitan

1 entries

abelha noun (insect)

Odia

1 entries

ମହୁମାଛି noun (insect)

Ojibwe

1 entries

ᐋᒨ noun (insect)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

бьчела noun (insect)

Old English

1 entries

bēo noun (insect)

Old French

1 entries

ef noun (insect)

Old Galician-Portuguese

1 entries

abella noun (insect)

Old Irish

1 entries

bech noun (insect)

Old Javanese

1 entries

tawwan noun (insect)

Oromo

1 entries

kaanniissa noun (insect)

Ossetian

1 entries

мыдыбындз noun (insect)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

آری noun (insect)
زنبور noun (insect)

Palauan

2 entries

chelakngikl noun (insect)
chelatngikl noun (insect)

Pali

1 entries

bhamara noun (insect)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

пчола noun (insect)

Papiamentu

1 entries

bei noun (insect)

Pashto

3 entries

بلۍ مچۍ noun (insect)
غلاوزه noun (insect)
مچئِي noun (insect)

Pennsylvania German

1 entries

Iem noun (insect)

Plains-Cree

1 entries

ᐊᒧ noun (insect)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Bie noun (insect)

Polabian

1 entries

čelă noun (insect)

Polish

1 entries

pszczoła noun (insect)

Portuguese

1 entries

abelha noun (insect)

Punjabi

1 entries

ਮਧੁ ਮਕ੍ਖੀ noun (insect)

Quechua

2 entries

abiha noun (insect)
mapa mama noun (insect)

Rapa Nui

1 entries

manu meri noun (insect)

Romagnol

1 entries

eva noun (insect)

Romani

1 entries

berorî noun (insect)

Romanian

1 entries

albină noun (insect)

Romansch

4 entries

avieul noun (insect)
avioul noun (insect)
aviul noun (insect)
aviöl noun (insect)

Russian

1 entries

пчела́ noun (insect)

Rwanda-Rundi

2 entries

uru-yuki noun (insect)
uruyuki class 11/10 noun (insect)

Samoan

1 entries

lago-meli noun (insect)

Sango

2 entries

inyusi noun (insect)
nzói noun (insect)

Sanskrit

2 entries

भ्रमर noun (insect)
मधुलिह् noun (insect)

Sardinian

2 entries

abe noun (insect)
àbe noun (insect)

Sassarese

1 entries

aba noun (insect)

Saterland Frisian

1 entries

Ieme noun (insect)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

seillean noun (insect)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

pčèla noun (insect)
пчѐла noun (insect)

Shan

1 entries

ၽိုင်ႈ noun (insect)

Shona

1 entries

nyuchi noun (insect)

Sicilian

2 entries

lapa noun (insect)
lapuni noun (insect)

Sidamo

1 entries

dida noun (insect)

Sindhi

1 entries

مک noun (insect)

Sinhalese

1 entries

මීමැස්සා noun (insect)

Slovak

1 entries

včela noun (insect)

Slovene

1 entries

čebela noun (insect)

Somali

1 entries

shinni noun (insect)

Sotho

1 entries

notshi noun (insect)

Southern Altai

2 entries

аару noun (insect)
адару noun (insect)

Spanish

1 entries

abeja noun (insect)

Sranan Tongo

1 entries

oni noun (insect)

Sudovian

1 entries

bite noun (insect)

Sundanese

1 entries

nyiruan noun (insect)

Svan

3 entries

ბუზუ̄ლ noun (insect)
ლა̈ღუ̂ბა̈ ბუზუ̄ლ noun (insect)
ღუ̂ებ noun (insect)

Swabian

1 entries

Biele noun (insect)

Swahili

1 entries

nyuki noun (insect)

Swedish

1 entries

bi noun (insect)

Tagal Murut

1 entries

maningot noun (insect)

Tagalog

2 entries

bubuyog noun (insect)
pukyot noun (insect)

Tajik

2 entries

занбӯр noun (insect)
ору noun (insect)

Tamil

1 entries

தேனீ noun (insect)

Tashelhit

1 entries

tazzwit noun (insect)

Tatar

2 entries

бал корты noun (insect)
умырта корты noun (insect)

Telugu

1 entries

తేనెటీగ noun (insect)

Tetum

1 entries

bani noun (insect)

Thai

3 entries

ผึ้ง noun (insect)
ภมร noun (insect)
ภุมรี noun (insect)

Tibetan

4 entries

བུང་བ noun (insect)
རྡུལ་ཉལ noun (insect)
སྦྲང་མ noun (insect)
སྦྲང་རྩི་མྱོང noun (insect)

Tigrinya

2 entries

ንህቢ noun (insect)
ንሕቢ noun (insect)

Tocharian B

2 entries

krokśe noun (insect)
kronkśe noun (insect)

Tok Pisin

2 entries

bi noun (insect)
binen noun (insect)

Tooro

1 entries

orujoki class 11 noun (insect)

Tswana

1 entries

notshi noun (insect)

Tupinambá

1 entries

eíra noun (insect)

Turkish

1 entries

arı noun (insect)

Turkmen

1 entries

ary noun (insect)

Tuvan

1 entries

ары noun (insect)

Uab Meto

2 entries

oni noun (insect)
onê noun (insect)

Udmurt

1 entries

муш noun (insect)

Ukrainian

1 entries

бджола́ noun (insect)

Umbundu

1 entries

nyihi noun (insect)

Unami

1 entries

amëwe noun (insect)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

pčoła noun (insect)

Urdu

2 entries

شَہْد کی مَکھّی noun (insect)
مَدھ مَکھّی noun (insect)

Uyghur

1 entries

ھەرە noun (insect)

Uzbek

2 entries

ari noun (insect)
ари noun (insect)

Venda

1 entries

notshi class 9/10 noun (insect)

Venetan

1 entries

ava noun (insect)

Vietnamese

1 entries

ong noun (insect)

Vilamovian

1 entries

byn noun (insect)

Volapük

1 entries

bien noun (insect)

Votic

1 entries

tšimolain noun (insect)

Walloon

4 entries

moxhe noun (insect)
moxhe al låme noun (insect)
moxhe d' apî noun (insect)
moxhe di tchetoere noun (insect)

Wastek

1 entries

dhom noun (insect)

Welsh

1 entries

gwenynen noun (insect)

West Coast Bajau

1 entries

buani noun (insect)

West-Frisian

1 entries

bij noun (insect)

Western Apache

1 entries

gosnih noun (insect)

White Hmong

1 entries

muv noun (insect)

Wiradjuri

1 entries

ngaraang noun (insect)

Woiwurrung

1 entries

manerlong noun (insect)

Wolof

1 entries

yamb wi noun (insect)

Wu Chinese

1 entries

蜜蜂 noun (insect)

Xhosa

1 entries

inyosi noun (insect)

Xiang Chinese

1 entries

蜜蜂子 noun (insect)

Yaghnobi

1 entries

замбур noun (insect)

Yakut

1 entries

ыҥырыа noun (insect)

Yao

1 entries

lujuci noun (insect)

Yiddish

1 entries

בין noun (insect)

Yoruba

2 entries

kòkòrò oyin noun (insect)
oyin noun (insect)

Yucatec Maya

1 entries

kaab noun (insect)

Yugambal

1 entries

nyugay noun (insect)

Yup'ik

1 entries

mertaq noun (insect)

Zazaki

1 entries

hıng (diq) noun (insect)

Zhuang

1 entries

rwi noun (insect)

Zulu

1 entries

inyosi noun (insect)

Sample sentences

27 total sentences available.

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You are always as busy as a bee.

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The bee alighted on the flower.

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A bee flew out of the window.

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When he got to the party, Sam made a bee line for the food.

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Closest matches include apis mellifera, assembly, boutade, bumble, bumblebee.

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