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Wiktionary
n. (plural of grove English)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 6570
Land area (2000): 5.180936 sq. miles (13.418562 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007498 sq. miles (0.019420 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.188434 sq. miles (13.437982 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31328
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.947113 N, 93.915829 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77619
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Groves
Wikipedia
Groves may refer to
- Groves (surname), including a list of people with the surname
- Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, an earlier version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- USS Groves (DE-543), a U.S. Navy destroyer escort cancelled during construction in 1944
- USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG-29), a U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate in commission since 1982
- The Groves, an area of York, England
- Groves, Texas, U.S., a city
- Groves High School (disambiguation), several schools
- Groves Stadium, home of BB&T Field, an American football venue in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Groves is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Groves, British fashion designer
- Anthony Norris Groves, British missionary
- Baily Groves, A former serial killer
- Charles Groves, British conductor
- Colin Groves, Australian primatologist
- Eddy Groves, Australian businessman
- Frederick Groves (disambiguation)
- Harold Groves (1897-1969), American politician
- James Grimble Groves (1854–1914), British brewer and politician
- Jennifer Choe Groves, American Federal Judge
- John Groves (disambiguation)
- Ken Groves (1921–2002), English footballer
- Kristina Groves (b. 1976), Canadian speed skater
- Leslie Groves (1896–1970), American general who managed the Manhattan Project
- Martin Groves, British hillclimb driver
- Paul Groves (footballer) (b. 1966), English footballer
- Paul Groves (tenor) (b. 1964), American opera singer
- Perry Groves (b. 1965), English footballer
- Ricky Groves (b. 1968), British actor
- Robert Groves, British Royal Navy and Royal Air Force officer
- Ronald Groves, English educationalist and academic
- Sara Groves, American singer-songwriter
- Shaun Groves, American singer-songwriter
- Stephen W. Groves, American naval flyer
- Theodore Groves, American professor of economics
- Vic Groves, English footballer
- William P. Groves (1893-1963), American politician
- Willie Groves, Scottish footballer
- Christian Groves, British engineer
Usage examples of "groves".
Reynolds and Groves looked at him in shocked disbelief, possibly awed by the catholicity of Andrea's taste, more probably astonished by the insensitivity of a man who could eat so heartily only a few hours after the death of one of his comrades.
No less competent was Groves: the poor light and cramped confines of his tiny plotting-table clearly didn't worry him at all and as an air navigator he was quite clearly as experienced as he was proficient.
Reynolds, Groves and Saunders, who were rather less accustomed to the vicissitudes of fate than their three older companions, registered a very similar combination of startled anger and open-mouthed astonishment.
Reynolds looked at Groves: they both looked at Saunders: all three slowly shook their heads.
Reynolds and Groves, unable to sleep, stood idly by the solitary window, gazing out abstractedly into the dimly-lit compound: they turned as Saunders removed his radio transmitter from its casing and made for the door.
Reynolds whirled and and silently and urgently beckoned Groves to the window.
For a few moments Reynolds and Groves stared open-mouthed at each other, I then Reynolds stood up and looked at Andrea.
Reynolds and Groves, with Miller slightly behind them, watched the two men as they went, then looked at each other, their faces still bleak and bitter.
They ate in a moody silence, heads lowered, for the most part not looking at one another: the events of the previous night had clearly affected them all deeply but none so deeply as Reynolds and Groves in whose faces was still unmistakably reflected the shock caused by Saunders's murder.
Andrea, who had already emptied his plate with apparent relish, looked at the two untouched plates in front of Reynolds and Groves and then enquiringly at the two sergeants themselves, who shook their heads.
Reynolds and Groves, whether by accident or design, had fallen some little way behind and were talking in soft tones.
Mallory glanced at Maria, Reynolds and Groves, all sitting silently by, then at Miller who was reclining in his sleeping-bag with his volume of poetry.
He looked at Andrea and Miller and Reynolds and Groves and knew that they knew it too.
He wondered how Reynolds and Groves would be: he suspected they might acquit themselves well.
Reynolds and Groves brought up the rear, almost but not quite attaining the degree of nonchalance of the other three: their still faces and restlessly darting eyes betrayed the strain they were under.