Dictionary Definition
grove
Noun
1 a small growth of trees without
underbrush
2 garden consisting of a small cultivated wood
without undergrowth [syn: woodlet, orchard, plantation]
User Contributed Dictionary
- See also Grove.
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊv
Noun
- A medium sized collection of trees.
Translations
a medium sized collection of trees
Dutch
Adjective
- alternate form of grof
Extensive Definition
People, places, and things commonly known as
grove include:
- A small group of trees such as a sequoia grove; see grove (nature)
- A small group of trees used as a place of pagan worship: see Sacred grove. The most famous sacred grove in Greece was at Dodona; see Temenos.
People
- Amanda Grove, Court TV personality
- Andrew Grove, principal executive of Intel Corporation
- Betty Ann Grove, American actress
- Bob Grove, American journalist
- Charlotte Grove, British diarist
- Cypress Grove, British guitarist
- David Grove, illustrator
- Edwin Wiley Grove, Druggist and Millionaire
- Eric Grove, naval historian
- Frederick Philip Grove alias Felix Paul Greve, German-Canadian author
- John L. Grove, American industrialist
- Sir George Grove, writer on music
- Jake Grove, American football offensive lineman
- Lefty Grove, baseball pitcher
- Tony Grove, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Nottingham Trent University
- William
Grove:
- William Barry Grove, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
- William Robert Grove, scientist
Also
- The Grove Family, an early British television soap opera
Places
- In England:
- In Northern Ireland
- Grove, A small area in belfast with grove park and grove well being center (in construction due january 2008, The grove well being center is currently in construction in grove park and should be completed by jan 2008, And Grove primary school
- in Germany:
- Grove, Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein
Things
- The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, an encyclopedia of music, originally edited by Sir George Grove, above
- New Grove Dictionary of Opera a sister publication,
- Grove Dictionary of Art another
In the Bible
In the King James Bible, the name of the Canaanite goddess Asherah is uniformly mistranslated "grove".See also
grove in German: Grove
grove in French: Grove
grove in Dutch: Grove
grove in Volapük: Grove
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
batch,
bocage, bosk, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, bunch, clump, cluster, coppice, copse, crop, dale, dell, dingle, gap, gill, glen, group, grouping, groupment, hassock, holt, hurst, intervale, knot, lot, lunar rill, mess, orchard, pass, ravine, shaw, shock, slew, spinney, stook, strath, thicket, tope, trench, trough, tuft, tussock, vale, valley, wadi, wisp, wood lot, woodlet