Grove
[grəʊv] or [ɡrov]
Definition
(noun.) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth.
(noun.) a small growth of trees without underbrush.
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Definition
(v.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Forest, wood, woodland, thicket, copse.
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Definition
n. a wood of small size generally of a pleasant or ornamental character: an avenue of trees: (B.) an erroneous translation of Asherah the wooden upright image of the lewdly worshipped goddess Ashtoreth; also of Heb. eshel in Gen. xxi. 33.—Groves of Academe the shady walks of the Academy at Athens any place of learned pursuits.
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Examples
- Hancock's corps pushed toward Totopotomoy Creek; Warren's corps to the left on the Shady Grove Church Road, while Burnside was held in reserve. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I went there and found over eighty cells of the well-known Grove nitric-acid battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She could really almost fancy herself at Maple Grove. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It has been proved by Mr. Grove that the cost of ordinary batteries necessary to maintain the light in full brilliancy would greatly exceed the price of an equal light from gas. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Ayelike Maple Grove, I dare say. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Jane will be only four miles from Maple Grove. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Have you been to the Grove since? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And now, do come, and let us once more be as we were at Sympson Grove. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They picnicked in the grove, and six hundred of them went up the tower. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I saw a vast deal of that in the neighbourhood round Maple Grove. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Warren moved up near Huntley Corners on the Shady Grove Church Road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Very like Maple Grove indeed! Jane Austen. Emma.
- That room was the very shape and size of the morning-room at Maple Grove; her sister's favourite room. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her Bath habits made evening-parties perfectly natural to her, and Maple Grove had given her a taste for dinners. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Says he feels as if it was groves! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was the same with the groves of deserted bedsteads I peeped at, on my way to, and when I was in, my own bed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He hunted and played and went about in his sunny world of gardens and groves and irrigated rice-fields. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The far-reaching orange groves surrounding Riverside are one of the most beautiful of all beautiful sights in Southern California, and the fragrance of the blossoms is subtlest witchery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Its work is to plane the surfaces of boards, and to cut the edges into tongues and groves, such as are required for flooring. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The few enormous trees of great age which are now preserved in groves are known as the _Sequoia Gigantia_. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Late we envied their abodes, their spicy groves, fertile plains, and abundant loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What is to disprove that this tribe, instead of camping under palm groves in Asia, wandered beneath island oak woods rooted in our own seas of Europe? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- From the mountain's peak its broken turrets rise above the groves of ancient oaks and olives, and look wonderfully picturesque. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These big trees grow at an altitude between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, and, whether individual or in groves, they are found in protected valleys, canyons, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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