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Definition: Beekeeper |
BeekeeperNoun1. A farmer who keeps bees for their honey. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beekeeper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Raises bees to produce honey and pollinate crops: Assembles beehives, using handtools. Arranges with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies. Inserts honeycomb of bees into beehive or inducts wild swarming bees into hive of prepared honeycomb frames. Places screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and sets hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen. Forces bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs. Scrapes out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice. Collects royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as base for cosmetics and as health food. Destroys superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming. Destroys diseased bee colonies, using cyanide gas. Burns hive of diseased bee colony or sterilizes hive, using caustic soda solution. Uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Arranges with buyers for sale of honey. May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer (agriculture); Queen Producer (agriculture). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BeekeeperSynonyms: apiarist (n), apiculturist (n). (additional references) |
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| "Beekeeper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Beekeeper" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beekeeper | 39 |
beekeeper fonda peter | 8 |
beekeeper supply | 7 |
beekeeper by fonda peter played | 7 |
bee beekeeper keeping | 6 |
abbotsford beekeeper | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beekeeper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bletar (apiarist, apiculturist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النحال (apiarist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пчелар (apiarian, apiarist, beemaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蜂农. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vèelař (apiarist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | apiculteur (bee-keeper, bee-master). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bienenzüchter (apiarist, apiculturist, bee keeper, bee-keeper, bee-master). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כורן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | méhész (apiarian, apiarist, bee master, bee-keeper, bee-master). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | apicoltore (apiarist, apiculturist, bee-keeper, bee-master). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 養蜂家 (apiarist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ようほうか (apiarist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 양봉가. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eekeeperbay abelheiro (titmouse). (various references) apicultor (apiarist, apiculturist, bee master, hiver). (various references) пчеловод (apiarian, apiarist, bee-keeper, beemaster). (various references) pčelar (apiarian, apiarist). (various references) colmenero (apiarist, apiculturist, bee-keeper, bee-master), apicultor (apiarist, apiculturist, bee-keeper, bee-master). (various references) biodlare (apiarist, apiculturist, bee-keeper, bee-master). (various references) arıcı (apiarist, bee master). (various references) пасічник (apiarian, apiarist, bee master). (various references) gwenynwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "beekeeper": beekeepers. (additional references) | |
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"Beekeeper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beeeee, beeeep. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beekeeper" (pronounced bē"kē'per) |
| 4 | -k ē' p er | bookkeeper, crowkeeper, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, goalkeeper, groundskeeper, housekeeper, innkeeper, peacekeeper, scorekeeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper. |
| 3 | -ē' p er | minesweeper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-e-e-k-p-r" | |
-3 letters: beeper, keeper. | |
-4 letters: kreep. | |
-5 letters: beep, beer, bree, epee, keep, kerb, peek, peer, peke, perk, pree, reek. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-e-e-k-p-r" | |
+1 letter: beekeepers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 65 6B 65 65 70 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . . -.- . . .--. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100101 01101011 01100101 01100101 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e e k e e p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0065 006B 0065 0065 0070 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367171777171827184 |
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