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beekeeper

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • US: /ˈbiˌkipɚ/
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  • CMU ARPABET: B IY1 K IY2 P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a farmer who keeps bees for their honey

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster

History

Etymology

From bee + keeper.

Across languages

Translations

145 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: bletar — someone who keeps bees
  • Arabic: نَحَّال (naḥḥāl) — someone who keeps bees
  • Arabic: عَسَّال (ʕassāl) — someone who keeps bees
  • Arabic: جَبَّاح (jabbāḥ) — someone who keeps bees
  • Armenian: մեղվաբույծ (meġvabuyc) — someone who keeps bees
  • Armenian: մեղվապահ (meġvapah) — someone who keeps bees
  • Asturian: apicultor — someone who keeps bees
  • Asturian: abeyeru — someone who keeps bees
  • Azerbaijani: arıçı — someone who keeps bees
  • Basque: erlezain — someone who keeps bees
  • Belarusian: пчаля́р (pčaljár) — someone who keeps bees
  • Belarusian: пчаля́рка (pčaljárka) — someone who keeps bees
  • Bulgarian: пчела́р (pčelár) — someone who keeps bees
  • Bulgarian: пчела́рка (pčelárka) — someone who keeps bees
  • Catalan: apicultor — someone who keeps bees
  • Catalan: abeller — someone who keeps bees
  • Catalan: abellaire — someone who keeps bees
  • Chinese Mandarin: 養蜂人 /养蜂人 (yǎngfēngrén) — someone who keeps bees
  • Corsican: apicultore — someone who keeps bees
  • Czech: včelař — someone who keeps bees
  • Czech: včelařka — someone who keeps bees
  • Danish: biavler — someone who keeps bees
  • Dutch: imker — someone who keeps bees
  • Dutch: imkerin — someone who keeps bees
  • Dutch: bijenhouder — someone who keeps bees
  • Dutch: bijenhoudster — someone who keeps bees
  • Esperanto: abelisto — someone who keeps bees
  • Esperanto: virabelisto — someone who keeps bees
  • Esperanto: abelistino — someone who keeps bees
  • Estonian: mesinik — someone who keeps bees
  • Finnish: mehiläishoitaja — someone who keeps bees
  • Finnish: mehiläistarhuri — someone who keeps bees
  • French: apiculteur — someone who keeps bees
  • French: apicultrice — someone who keeps bees
  • Galician: apicultor — someone who keeps bees
  • Galician: apicultora — someone who keeps bees
  • Galician: abelleiro — someone who keeps bees
  • Galician: abelleira — someone who keeps bees
  • Galician: meleiro — someone who keeps bees
  • Gallurese: casiddaggiu — someone who keeps bees
  • Georgian: მეფუტკრე (mepuṭḳre) — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Imker — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Imkerin — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Bienenzüchter — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Bienenzüchterin — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Beutner — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Beutnerin — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Bienenvater — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Bienenmutter — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Zeidler — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Zeidlerin — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Zeidelmeister — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Zeidelmeisterin — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Bienenhalter — someone who keeps bees
  • German: Bienenhalterin — someone who keeps bees
  • Greek: μελισσοκόμος (melissokómos) — someone who keeps bees
  • Ancient Greek: μελισσουργός (melissourgós) — someone who keeps bees
  • Hungarian: méhész — someone who keeps bees
  • Irish: beachaire — someone who keeps bees
  • Italian: apicoltore — someone who keeps bees
  • Italian: apicoltrice — someone who keeps bees
  • Italian: apicultore — someone who keeps bees
  • Italian: apicultrice — someone who keeps bees
  • Japanese: 養蜂家 (yōhōka) — someone who keeps bees
  • Kazakh: ара бағушы (ara bağuşy) — someone who keeps bees
  • Kazakh: ара өсіруші (ara ösıruşı) — someone who keeps bees
  • Kazakh: арашы (araşy) — someone who keeps bees
  • Kazakh: омарташы (omartaşy) — someone who keeps bees
  • Korean: 양봉가 (yangbongga) — someone who keeps bees
  • Ladin: zidlaês — someone who keeps bees
  • Ladin: apicoltur — someone who keeps bees
  • Latin: apiārius — someone who keeps bees
  • Latin: mellifex — someone who keeps bees
  • Latin: cīdlārius — someone who keeps bees
  • Latvian: biškopis — someone who keeps bees
  • Latvian: biškope — someone who keeps bees
  • Latvian: dravnieks — someone who keeps bees
  • Latvian: dravniece — someone who keeps bees
  • Latvian: bitenieks — someone who keeps bees
  • Latvian: biteniece — someone who keeps bees
  • Lithuanian: bi̇̀tininkas — someone who keeps bees
  • Lithuanian: bi̇̀tininkė — someone who keeps bees
  • Macedonian: пчелар (pčelar) — someone who keeps bees
  • Macedonian: пчеларка (pčelarka) — someone who keeps bees
  • Māori: kaitiaki pī — someone who keeps bees
  • Navajo: tsísʼná yee ʼáhályą́ąnii — someone who keeps bees
  • Norwegian Bokmål: birøkter — someone who keeps bees
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: birøktar — someone who keeps bees
  • Occitan: apicultor — someone who keeps bees
  • Occitan: abelhaire — someone who keeps bees
  • Old English: bēoċeorl — someone who keeps bees
  • Old English: bēocere — someone who keeps bees
  • Persian: زنبوردار (zanbur-dâr) — someone who keeps bees
  • Polish: pszczelarz — someone who keeps bees
  • Polish: pszczelarka — someone who keeps bees
  • Polish: pasiecznik — someone who keeps bees
  • Portuguese: apicultor — someone who keeps bees
  • Portuguese: apicultora — someone who keeps bees
  • Portuguese: abelheiro — someone who keeps bees
  • Portuguese: abelheira — someone who keeps bees
  • Romanian: albinar — someone who keeps bees
  • Romanian: albinară — someone who keeps bees
  • Romanian: apicultor — someone who keeps bees
  • Romanian: apicultoare — someone who keeps bees
  • Romanian: prisăcar — someone who keeps bees
  • Romanian: prisăcăriță — someone who keeps bees
  • Romansh: apicultur — someone who keeps bees
  • Romansh: apicultour — someone who keeps bees
  • Russian: пчелово́д (pčelovód) — someone who keeps bees
  • Russian: па́сечник (pásečnik) — someone who keeps bees
  • Russian: па́сечница (pásečnica) — someone who keeps bees
  • Russian: пчелово́дец (pčelovódec) — someone who keeps bees
  • Campidanese Sardinian: apiaresu — someone who keeps bees
  • Sardinian: abiargiu — someone who keeps bees
  • Sardinian: apiaresu — someone who keeps bees
  • Serbo-Croatian: пчелар — someone who keeps bees
  • Serbo-Croatian: пчеларица — someone who keeps bees
  • Serbo-Croatian: pčelar — someone who keeps bees
  • Serbo-Croatian: pčelarica — someone who keeps bees
  • Slovak: včelár — someone who keeps bees
  • Slovak: včelárka — someone who keeps bees
  • Slovene: čebelar — someone who keeps bees
  • Slovene: čebelarka — someone who keeps bees
  • Spanish: apicultor — someone who keeps bees
  • Spanish: apicultora — someone who keeps bees
  • Spanish: colmenero — someone who keeps bees
  • Spanish: colmenera — someone who keeps bees
  • Spanish: abejero — someone who keeps bees
  • Spanish: abejera — someone who keeps bees
  • Sudovian: bitinīkas — someone who keeps bees
  • Swahili: mfugaji nyuki — someone who keeps bees
  • Swedish: biodlare — someone who keeps bees
  • Turkish: arıcı — someone who keeps bees
  • Ukrainian: бджоля́р (bdžoljár) — someone who keeps bees
  • Ukrainian: бджоля́рка (bdžoljárka) — someone who keeps bees
  • Ukrainian: па́січник (pásičnyk) — someone who keeps bees
  • Ukrainian: па́січниця (pásičnycja) — someone who keeps bees
  • Volapük: bienan — someone who keeps bees
  • Volapük: hibienan — someone who keeps bees
  • Volapük: jibienan — someone who keeps bees
  • Volapük: bienaskälel — someone who keeps bees
  • Welsh: gwenynwr — someone who keeps bees
  • Welsh: gwenynwraig — someone who keeps bees
  • Yiddish: בינער (biner) — someone who keeps bees
  • Yucatec Maya: kaabnáal — someone who keeps bees