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• grove
  grove

  noun

  a small wood or forested area, usually with no undergrowth.
• Grove
  Grove

  noun

  Sir George, 1820–1900, English musicologist.

grove

¹ American  

[grohv] / groʊv /

noun

1. a small wood or forested area, usually with no undergrowth.

   a grove of pines.

2. a small orchard or stand of fruit-bearing trees, especially citrus trees.

   a grove of lemon trees.

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Grove ² American  

[grohv] / groʊv /

noun

1. Sir George, 1820–1900, English musicologist.

2. Robert Moses Lefty, 1900–75, U.S. baseball player.

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grove British  

/ ɡrəʊv /

noun

1. a small wooded area or plantation

2. 1. a road lined with houses and often trees, esp in a suburban area

   2. ( capital as part of a street name )

      Ladbroke Grove

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Related Words

See forest.

Other Word Forms

• groved
  adjective
• groveless
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of grove

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English grāf

Explanation

A grove can be an orchard or a clump of trees that doesn't have much undergrowth and occupies a contained area, like an orange grove or a small shady grove of oak trees where you can have a picnic. You wouldn't call a forest or a large woods a grove — that's too big. And you wouldn't call two or three trees a grove either — that's too small. A grove is somewhere in between. You'll often hear the word refer to a group of trees cultivated by humans, often for commercial purposes, such as an apple grove planted to supply produce to grocery stores.

Example Sentences

On Monday, the blaze passed through the pine grove area, which is home to trees that are more than 250 years old, according to the park service.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

“The ‘Turk’ and the ‘whore,’” Mr. Mikhail tells us, were unpopular in New Amsterdam, being outspoken, litigious and—most unpalatably to their frugal neighbors—commercially successful, owning fertile land and a large grove of fruit trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Alico’s Joshua Grove was the largest citrus grove in Florida, likely the largest contiguous grove in the country.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

She revamped “about half” the house as soon as she moved in, drawing inspiration from the property’s grove of deodar trees.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

“And more. You’ve had a narrow escape. You’re one lucky boy. What if the fire had spread into that sugarbush grove? Do you happen to recall whose particular grove that is?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck