beekeeper

[bee-kee-per]

noun

1. a person who raises honeybees; apiculturist.

beekeeper

/ ˈbiːˌkiːpə /

noun

1. a person who keeps bees for their honey; apiarist

Other Word Forms

• beekeeping noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of beekeeper¹

First recorded in 1810–20; bee ¹ + keeper

Example Sentences

A Dutch beekeeper has spoken of his shock after his 10 beehives were burned down in a park in the central city of Almere, with the loss of an estimated half a million bees.

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He also delivers one of the most spectacular line readings of the phrase “beekeepers and bottling fruit,” so don’t worry — the spirit of the Dowager Countess lives on.

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The locals say Agnes is the “child of a forest witch” and she is indeed extraordinary: an able herbalist, beekeeper and falconer.

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"The more months that they go without pollen, the more nutritional stress that they will face, which means that the beekeepers will have greater losses of those bees over winter," she explains.

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Police and firefighters fenced off the area and a beekeeper was called in to smoke out the bees - a safe way to calm the insects.

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