grove

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English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɹəʊv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɹoʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

Noun

grove (plural groves)

1. A small forest.

   Coordinate term: woodlot
2. A small forest with minimal undergrowth.

   Coordinate terms: glade, clearing

   Near-synonym: woodland

3. An orchard of fruit trees.
4. (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
5. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

Derived terms

Related terms

• mangrove

Translations

See also

• thicket
• copse
• spinney

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.
   • 1984, Queensland Botany Bulletin, Issue 3, Department of Primary Industries, page 82,

     Virtually recognizable groving occurs in some A. aneura associations in the west. Further east some diffuse groving may occur, but is difficult to recognize without the benefit of aerial photographs.

2. (forestry, of trees) 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.
   • 1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138,

     Very frequently, however, to shorten the distance to the upper nurseries, where they^{[the ants]} 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.

Synonyms

• (gouge with lines): groove

References

Anagrams

• Gover

Danish

Adjective

grove

1. definite of grov
2. plural of grov

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

grove

1. inflection of grof:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Middle English

Alternative forms

• grave, grof

Etymology

Inherited from Old English grāf, grāfa.

Pronunciation

• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑːv(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔːv(ə)/

Noun

grove (plural groves)

1. grove (small forest)

Descendants

• English: grove
• Scots: grave (obsolete)

References

• “grōve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-06.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

grove

1. definite singular of grov
2. plural of grov

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

grove

1. definite singular of grov
2. plural of grov

Swedish

Adjective

grove

1. definite natural masculine singular of grov