beekeeper

«beekeeper» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who keeps bees in hives to collect honey and wax — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a beekeeper, beekeepers); verb-related: beekeeping

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who keeps bees in hives to collect honey and wax. tree →

2) Someone who looks after bees as a hobby or job. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons: beekeepers help bees, collect honey and know how bees make it. In stories and farming. They wear a veil and protective suit for safety. Phrase: a beekeeper's suit, the beekeeper's smoker.

examples

• The beekeeper wore a white suit and a veil. tree →
• Our neighbour is a beekeeper with three hives. tree →
• The beekeeper used smoke to calm the bees. tree →
• Beekeepers collect honey in late summer. tree →
• A beekeeper showed our class how bees build combs. tree →
• The beekeeper sold jars of honey at the market. tree →

note

Compound word: bee + keeper, one word. Another word: apiarist (formal). Beekeepers do not hurt the bees when taking honey; they leave some for the bees. In maths problems, a beekeeper often has hives with a number of bees or jars of honey to divide.

In the corpora

• A beekeeper's year follows the bees.
• In late summer the beekeeper slices the wax caps off heavy frames and spins the honey out in a drum called an extractor.
• In autumn the beekeeper lifts the hive to check its weight, to be sure the bees have enough food for winter.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beekeeper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.