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grove

Pronunciation: /ɡɹəʊv/

The English word “grove” has 8 meanings listed here.

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.

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…

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