grove
English · Français · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
grove¹
- /ɡɹəʊv/ UK
- /ɡɹoʊv/ US
Rhymes with -əʊv
Where it comes from
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.
noun groves
- 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.
-
A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
Near-synonym: woodland
Similar: woodland
- An orchard of fruit trees.
- A place of worship.
- A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
verb groves · groving · groved
- 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 In
- 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 th
-
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 have to take the eggs, they project an arch of about ten inches in len
Similar: groove
Grove²
Where it comes from
* 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.
proper noun
- A habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove. The law was jointly authored by state Sens. Dave Cortese, a San Jose Democrat, and Shannon Grove, a Bakersfield Republican. […] Leno joined Grove and classic-car owners outside the state Capitol in Sacramento in April 2025 to rally for SB 712, which would have created a broader rolling exemption for
- A hamlet in Slapton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9192).
- A village in Portland parish, Dorset (OS grid ref SY6972).
- A hamlet in Yarkhill parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO6144).
- A hamlet in Wickhambreaux parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2361).
- A small village and civil parish (served by Headon cum Upton, Grove and Stokeham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7379).
- A large village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU4090).
- A suburb of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9800).
- A town in Allegany County, New York.
- A city in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in James City County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
- A number of townships, in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, listed under Grove Township.
- A municipality in Lauenburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- A rural locality in Huon Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: woodlet, orchard, woodland, coppice, forest, woodlot, riverbank, groove, shoreline, slot, notch, clump, glaring, stand, rasmussen, nods
Translations
Every language
noun small forest
| Español | arboleda |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 林 hayashi, 木立 kodachi |
| 中文 | 林子 línzi, 小樹林 /小树林 xiǎoshùlín |
| हिन्दी | झाड़ी jhāṛī |
| Português | bosque, bosquete |
| Français | bosquet |
| Deutsch | Hain, Gehölz, Wäldchen |
| Italiano | boschetto, piantagione |
| Ελληνικά | σύδεντρο sýdentro, άλσος álsos |
| Română | pădurice, crâng, arboret, tufiș, dumbravă |
| Русский | ро́ща róšča, лесо́к lesók, гай gaj |
| עברית | חֹרֶשׁ khóresh |
Talk about this word "grove." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/grove. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. grove. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/grove "grove." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/grove.Cite this
@misc{grove_2026,
title = {grove},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grove},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
