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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

• groves
  plural

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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Synonym Usage

See forest.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• groved
  adjective
• groveless
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• groves
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of grove

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English grāf

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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

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grove Grove groves

A train operated by the company Iryo, carrying 147 passengers, stopped by an almond grove, its driver awaiting further instructions from a control center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

In a forest grove to the east, a contractor climbed into a mechanical harvester and pivoted its head to grip and fell a tree, strip its branches and cut the trunk into exact lengths.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

The grove on Santa Rosa Island, which sits about 26 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, is a genetically distinct subspecies that occurs nowhere else on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Standing in a circle in the grove, they shared bread and wine and welcomed the changing of the season and the landscape "because within druidry we have that strong sense of interconnectedness with everything".

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

I took my samples from the riverside willows, the new blue willow grove, and the leaves I’d collected from random trees.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

“Johnnie Walker Black Label. And something Japanese,” he dictates to one of the two assistants scurrying around his palatial open-plan home in L.A.’s Beverly Grove.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

A former Garden Grove police sergeant was arrested by the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

In Decatur, Ga., First Baptist Church on Gresham Road joined a developer on Solace Grove: 125 apartments on a 5.3-acre corner lot it has long owned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The 67-year-old developer is behind popular L.A. malls, including the Grove and the Americana at Brand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

In a letter to Grove, White wrote, “I am hoping that all the good luck in the world will come our way from a good publisher,” adding that he would be keeping his fingers crossed.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Now about half a million acres are sitting dormant, and other abandoned groves have been absorbed for cattle grazing or Florida’s lucrative development sprawl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Officials found few clues except a farmer on a neighboring ranch who said that he had seen two young men carrying long guns in the groves the day Pancho disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Another major fire, which engulfed vineyards and olive groves on the Peljesac peninsula further south, was also brought under control on Friday evening, following a fierce battle involving 240 firefighters and three planes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

They take the olive groves and the goats and the summer houses, and they take the makeshift shelters and the fragile new footing of people who had already lost everything once.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

From my earliest childhood I’ve felt that something was going on in the groves, something of which I was not a part.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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