English Explanatory Dictionary

grove

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small forest.
  2. A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
  3. An orchard of fruit trees.
  4. A place of worship.
  5. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
verb
  1. To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
  2. To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
  3. To plough or gouge with lines.
name
  1. A habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove.
  2. Any of several villages in England.
  3. A hamlet in Slapton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9192).
  4. A village in Portland parish, Dorset (OS grid ref SY6972).
  5. A hamlet in Yarkhill parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO6144).
  6. A hamlet in Wickhambreaux parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2361).
  7. A small village and civil parish (served by Headon cum Upton, Grove and Stokeham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7379).
  8. A large village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU4090).
  9. A suburb of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9800).
  10. A place in the United States:
  11. A town in Allegany County, New York.
  12. A city in Delaware County, Oklahoma.

Pronunciation

/ɡɹəʊv/ /ɡɹoʊv/ en-us-grove.ogg

Word forms

grove groves groving groved

Etymology

From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”). Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.

Synonyms

woodland groove

Related words

mangrove nemoricole copse firth holt hurst shaw spinney thicket tree wald wold wood woods Grover

Derived words

Arnos Grove ash grove Beech Grove Boxgrove Buffalo Grove Calder Grove Cherry Grove Clifton Grove Coconut Grove Cottage Grove Council Grove Downers Grove Elk Grove Elk Grove Village Forest Grove Green Grove Grove Hill Groveland groveless Grove Park Grover grove snail grovy Hazel Grove Hunts Grove Ida Grove Inver Grove Heights Ladbroke Grove Liberty Grove London Grove Oak Grove Ocean Grove olive grove orange grove Palm Grove Parish Grove Pleasant Grove Rich Grove Richland Grove Rose Grove South Grove Squaw Grove undergrove Villa Grove Grove Ferry
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