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grove

UK/ɡɹəʊv//ɡɹoʊv/

grove noun: a small forest.

grove: a small forest
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Noun

grove (plural groves)

  1. A small forest.
    • Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160
  2. A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
    • Near-synonym: woodland
    Synonyms:
    woodland
  3. An orchard of fruit trees.
  4. A place of worship.
  5. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

Verb

grove (third-person singular simple present groves, present participle groving, simple past and past participle groved)

  1. To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
    • It is called "Orchard Lake," from the fact, that near the centre is an island embracing an area of about fifty acres of land, well groved with different kinds of shrubbery; and near the centre of this island stand a number of aged apple-trees, planted, perhaps, a century since by the hand of some...1841, Sapp R, “Orchard Lake”, in L. L. Hamline, editor, The Ladies Repository, Volume 1, page 165
    • The trees and shrubs are not arranged after any particular system, but are scattered or groved together in various parts of the garden.1822, Robert Chapman, The Topographical Picture of Glasgow in its Ancient and Modern State, 3rd edition, page 195
  2. To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
    • In Herefordshire, especially on the northern and eastern sides, Oak timber abounds; and in many of the woods it is usual to have felling at periods varying from sixteen to twenty years; the straightest and handsomest are left for timber, or, as it is called, groved; and they are from time to time...1842 February 5, The Gardeners Chronicle, page 86
  3. To plough or gouge with lines.
    • Very frequently, however, to shorten the distance to the upper nurseries, where they have to take the eggs, they project an arch of about ten inches in length, and half an inch in breadth, groved or worked into steps, on its upper surface, to allow of a more easy passage.1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138
    • The floor of first story and piazza to be laid with Georgia pine, in narrow courses planed, groved and tongued, and laid in the best manner.1841, New York State Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, volume 2, page 14
    Synonyms:
    groove

Proper noun capitalized: Grove

Grove

  1. A habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove.
  2. A hamlet in Slapton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9192).
  3. A village in Portland parish, Dorset (OS grid ref SY6972).
  4. A hamlet in Yarkhill parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO6144).
  5. A hamlet in Wickhambreaux parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2361).
  6. A small village and civil parish (served by Headon cum Upton, Grove and Stokeham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7379).
  7. A large village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU4090).
  8. A suburb of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9800).
  9. A town in Allegany County, New York.
  10. A city in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
  11. An unincorporated community in James City County, Virginia.
  12. An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
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  1. A number of townships, in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, listed under Grove Township.
  2. A municipality in Lauenburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
  3. A rural locality in Huon Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.

grove meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

grove in Hindi

small forest
झाड़ी jhāṛī

grove in Tamil

small forest
தோப்பு tōppu, சோலை cōlai

grove in Marathi

grove
राई rāī

grove in Urdu

باغ, جھنڈ, کنج
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grove in Bengali
উপবন, উদ্যান, কূঁজবন, কুঁজকানন
grove in Telugu
వృక్షవాటిక vr̥kṣavāṭika, మామిడితోపు māmiḍitōpu
grove in Malayalam
ഉപവനം upavanaṁ
grove in Kannada
ಹಾಡಿ, ತೋಪು, ಮರದುರುಗಲ್
grove in Punjabi
ਢੱਕੀ ḍhakkī
grove in Odia
ମୂଳ muḷa
grove in Sanskrit
विमान vimā́na
grove in Nepali
ग्रोभ

Examples of grove in a sentence

  • His arboricultural knowledge stood him in good stead when he planted the olive grove.
  • Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.
  • In the wild little grove stood a grand stag watching over his rangale.

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Synonyms of grove

Forms of grove

Noun
pluralgroves
Verb
third-person singular presentgroves
present participlegroving
past participlegroved
pastgroved

Plural of grove: groves

Origin of grove

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.

* As an English surname, from the noun grove. * As a French surname, Americanized from Le Groux, Le Greux, reduced from Gréoul, of Germanic origin, from *grēduz (“hunger”) + *wulfaz (“wolf”). * As a north German surname, from the Low German noun Graf (“ditch, grave”) (see grave). Also a Dutch and Low German form of Grub. * As a German surname, variant of Graf.

Words formed from grove

Phrases with grove

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Words that rhyme with grove

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Questions about grove

What does grove mean?
Grove means a small forest.
What is grove in Hindi?
Grove in Hindi is झाड़ी (jhāṛī). See Grove meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is grove?
Grove can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce grove?
Grove is pronounced /ɡɹəʊv/ (UK).
What is the plural of grove?
The plural of grove is groves.

Words near grove in the dictionary

  1. groutlike
  2. grouts
  3. grouty
  4. Grouville
  5. Grovane
  6. grove
  7. Grove cell
  8. Grove cells
  9. Grove Ferry
  10. Grove Hill
  11. Grove of the Evangelist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grove (page history and authors); Grove (page history and authors); राई (Marathi) (page history and authors); grove (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grove (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మామిడితోపు (Telugu) (page history and authors); ഉപവനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); grove (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਢੱਕੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ମୂଳ (Odia) (page history and authors); विमान (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); grove (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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