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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grove
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
olive grove
▪ an olive grove
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
olive
▪ On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves, we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape.
▪ These men also have olive groves and cold-press their own virgin oil.
▪ Out among the olive groves and white-washed villages, or in the streets and galleries, you realise how little has changed.
▪ His island, she mused, as she drove through almond and olive groves.
▪ And what about the olive grove at Spello?
▪ Below the olive groves, sloping fields produce lush vines and the valleys are full of sunflowers, tomatoes and maize.
▪ Situated on the eastern shore of the lake with a backdrop of terraced vineyards, olive groves and cypress trees.
▪ In minutes you can leave the sea for chestnut trees and olive groves.
orange
▪ Granada glowed in the golden evening like a jewel suspended between the snowy Sierra Nevada and the rich green of orange groves.
▪ My uncles visited a few times, and we went to the beach or to orange groves.
▪ The trains still run along the coastline south of Jaffa where the family's old orange groves stand.
▪ Running through the orange grove, which already had little green oranges on, past the chickens, she froze with horror.
▪ The rugged mountains and hills form an impressive backdrop, and inland peaceful villages look out across orange and lemon groves.
sacred
▪ As a description of a sacred grove, with its legends, character and atmosphere, this is hard to better!
▪ I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last surviving matriarchal, communal culture on earth.
▪ I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a direct continuity of, ley mark-clumps.
▪ Then taking her on board they went where she directed and reached the sacred grove where the Fleece hung.
▪ The servants had unpacked the picnic hampers, filling the sacred grove with roasted chickens, quails, and potted shrimps.
▪ The sacred grove is our sanctuary, our temple.
▪ Black-armoured warriors burned the sacred groves.
■ NOUN
lemon
▪ He could be out on the patio, or walking among his lemon groves.
▪ The road led between lemon groves, and beyond them the sea sparkled in the distance.
▪ Just think of those lemon groves outside my aunt's villa in Ravello.
▪ The lemon groves, which gave the village its name, cover the surrounding countryside, and there are flowers everywhere.
▪ Naturally there are many walks to be enjoyed in the surrounding countryside, and through the lemon groves that surround the village.
▪ The rugged mountains and hills form an impressive backdrop, and inland peaceful villages look out across orange and lemon groves.
palm
▪ Flora and I were walking through the palm grove, on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley.
▪ The dense palm grove had been cleared and hundreds of casuarina trees chopped down and grubbed out.
▪ I chose the deep shade of the palm grove where the high foliage sprinkled drops of sunlight on the path.
▪ The newly-built swimming pool is situated in lush gardens and deep palm groves which are part of the charm of this resort.
▪ Among rocks and in palm groves near rocks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the groves of Academe
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lemon grove
▪ the redwood groves of Northern California
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a description of a sacred grove, with its legends, character and atmosphere, this is hard to better!
▪ As he followed his partner through the grove, the stammering policeman limped from his run-in with the pot.
▪ His island, she mused, as she drove through almond and olive groves.
▪ I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last surviving matriarchal, communal culture on earth.
▪ I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a direct continuity of, ley mark-clumps.
▪ I was awestruck in the maple grove, immersed there in the luminescent yellow all around.
▪ Meekly he followed Drumhead up the sandy embankment toward the willow grove.
▪ The dense palm grove had been cleared and hundreds of casuarina trees chopped down and grubbed out.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grove

Grove \Grove\ (gr[=o]v), n. [AS. graf, fr. grafan to dig. The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See Grave, v., and cf. Groove.] A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

Note: The Hebrew word Asherah, rendered grove in the Authorized Version of the Bible, is left untranslated in the Revised Version. Almost all modern interpreters agree that by Asherah an idol or image of some kind is intended.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grove

Old English graf "grove, copse" (akin to græafa "thicket"), from Proto-Germanic *graibo-, but not certainly found in other Germanic languages and with no known cognates anywhere else.

Wiktionary
grove

n. 1 A small forest. 2 An orchard of fruit trees. 3 (context Druidism Wicca English) A place of worship

WordNet
grove
  1. n. a small growth of trees without underbrush

  2. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth [syn: woodlet, orchard, plantation]

Gazetteer
Grove, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 5131
Housing Units (2000): 2807
Land area (2000): 9.014379 sq. miles (23.347133 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.054273 sq. miles (0.140566 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.068652 sq. miles (23.487699 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31600
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.588611 N, 94.783110 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74344
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Grove, OK
Grove
Wikipedia
Grove

Grove may refer to:

  • Grove (nature), a small group of trees
Grove (nature)

A grove is a small group of trees with minimal or no undergrowth, such as a sequoia grove, or a small orchard planted for the cultivation of fruits or nuts. Other words for groups of trees include woodland, woodlot, thicket, or stand.

The primary meaning of "grove" is simply a group of trees that grow close together, generally without many bushes or other plants underneath. It is an old word in English, existing more than 1,000 years ago, but it is of unknown origin.

Naturally-occurring groves are typically small, perhaps a few acres at most. Orchards, by contrast, may be small or very large, like the apple orchards in Washington state, and orange groves in Florida.

Historically, groves were considered sacred in pagan, pre-Christian Germanic, Nordic and Celtic cultures. Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen argues that "we can assume that sacred groves actually existed due to repeated mentions in historiographical and ethnographical accounts. e.g. Tacitus, Germania."

Grove (crater)

Grove is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the northern part of the Lacus Somniorum. It is located to the southeast of the crater remnant Mason. Grove is a relatively circular crater formation with a simple, sharp-edged rim. The unconsolidated material along the inner wall has slumped down to the floor, forming a ring around the relatively level base. The floor contains a few tiny impacts, but is otherwise nearly featureless.

Grove (surname)

Grove is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alex Grove, rugby player
  • Amanda Grove, Court TV personality
  • Andrew Grove (1936–2016), Hungarian-born American engineer and businessman; former CEO of Intel
  • Betty Ann Grove, American actress
  • Charles Clayton Grove, American mathematician
  • Charlotte Grove, British diarist
  • David Grove, archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar
  • 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
  • Kendall Grove, mixed martial arts fighter
  • George Grove, writer on music
  • Jake Grove, American football offensive lineman
  • Lefty Grove (1900–1975), American baseball pitcher
  • Marmaduke Grove, Chilean militar and politician
  • William Grove (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "grove".

I arrived at the address on Grove Street, just a few blocks from the station, Adler stood out front beneath the streetlight, listening to an elderly woman with her hair in rollers, who wore a shapeless shift of floral polyester and rubber thong sandals in Day-Glo pink.

From the far side of the birch grove two horsemen appeared agallop, the one atop a bay, the other riding a garnet-hued animal.

When Alima had left, Nadon went to his grove to see if he could save the wounded Bafforr, but the pale blue sheen of its glasslike trunk was already turning black in death.

That had been their signal, summer nights, when they sneaked out to meet in the willow grove down on the banks of the Amia, when everybody else was sleeping.

That had been their signal, summer nights, when they sneaked out to meet in the willow grove, down on the banks of the Amia, when everybody else was sleeping.

He wanted to show her the house he was building on Anguilla, toohis first house, one that was being built amid a grove of palm trees on a gorgeous stretch of pristine beach with a breathtaking view of the water.

Most of all, groves of wild crab apples draped the lower hills like oases among the granite cliffs.

It stood there in its grandeur on the mountain cliff, And mirrored in the ocean wave its lofty brow, While round about it, like a zone of beauteous flowers, Far stretched the dale of Balder with its sighing groves.

Raum hesitated a little, then began by explaining the significance of the groves to the Avar people and how those Avar children who had the potential to become Banes had to be presented and bonded to the Mother.

Normally the Banes are the only members of the Avar race who know the paths in order to find the Grove.

They were no longer on the mountaintop, but in a cathedral-like grove of large old basswood trees.

A few low domes protruded through the greenery, and a stubby blocklike building rose from a grove of trees in the distance.

He plunged through a thick grove of tall lichenspowder-rot branches snapped behind him in pink snowbursts of color.

Nevertheless I did not intend to pose that steep challenge to the Maxwell today, and drove steadily if bumpily toward the Pacific Grove gate to the Seventeen Mile Drive.

Picking his trail from several that fanned out from the bottom of the rocky chute, he made his way out of the rocks and aspen groves onto rolling hills covered with thin, coarse, high-altitude bunchgrasses, then into a broad, shallow bowl that looked like the mouth of an ancient volcano.