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Definition of Grove

1. Noun. A small growth of trees without underbrush.

2. Noun. Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth.

Definition of Grove

1. n. 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.

Definition of Grove

1. Proper noun. (surname habitational from=Middle English dot=) for someone who lived near a grove. ¹

2. Noun. A small forest. ¹

3. Noun. An orchard of fruit trees. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grove

1. a small forested area [n -S] : GROVED [adj]

Medical Definition of Grove

1. Origin: AS. Graf, fr. Grafan to dig. The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See Grave, 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. The Hebrew word Asherah, rendered grove in the Authorised 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grove

grouses grousest grousing grout grouted grouter grouters groutier groutiest grouting

groutings groutite groutlike grouts grouty grove grove snail groved grovel groveled

groveler grovelers groveless groveling grovelingly grovelled groveller grovellers grovelling grovels

Literary usage of Grove

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Purcnase money of the Myrtle Grove Plan- lJ lation. He averred that the plantation was the property of the succession of Walker, the mortgagor, ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"Now it came to pass that Mr. Grove had his nose in his hand when Mrs. Grove came into the room—yes, Mr. Grove had his nose in his hand when Mrs. Grove came ..."

3. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1859)
"From Independence, Buchanan county, by Greely's, Burch's Point, and Long Grove, to West Union, Fayette county. From Cedar Rapids, by Coleman's Hotel, ..."

4. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"His title, his sacred office, and his residence in the grove all point to this conclusion, which is confirmed by his relation to the Golden Bough. ..."

5. The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighborhood: Its Missionary Aspect by Charles Freer Andrews, Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Horace Mather Lippncott, 1877-1967 (1912)
"Cedar Grove lies in the Northern Liberties in a neighbourhood now known as Harrogate, near Frank- ford, within a short distance of the Frankford Road. ..."

6. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"Though the presence of this mineral at "Mill Grove" had been known, as we have seen, at a much earlier day, its rediscovery excited great interest, ..."

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