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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/#m1)

2) Someone who looks after bees as a hobby or job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/#x1)
- Our neighbour is a beekeeper with three hives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/#x2)
- The beekeeper used smoke to calm the bees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/#x3)
- Beekeepers collect honey in late summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/#x4)
- A beekeeper showed our class how bees build combs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/#x5)
- The beekeeper sold jars of honey at the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/0/)
- [In late summer the beekeeper slices the wax caps off heavy frames and spins the honey out in a drum called an extractor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/6/)
- [In autumn the beekeeper lifts the hive to check its weight, to be sure the bees have enough food for winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beekeeper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beekeeper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.