A grove is a group of trees that are close together.
...open fields and groves of trees.
...an olive grove.
Synonyms: wood, woodland, plantation, covert More Synonyms of grove
2. countable noun
Grove is often used as part of the name of a street.
[mainly British]
...47 Canada Grove, Bognor Regis.
grove in British English
(ɡrəʊv)
noun
1.
a small wooded area or plantation
2.
a.
a road lined with houses and often trees, esp in a suburban area
b.
(capital as part of a street name)
Ladbroke Grove
Word origin
Old English grāf; related to grǣfa thicket, greave, Norwegian greivla to intertwine
grove in American English
(groʊv)
noun
1.
a small wood or group of trees without undergrowth
2.
a group of trees planted and cultivated to bear fruit, nuts, etc.; orchard
Word origin
ME grof < OE graf, akin to græfa, thicket
Examples of 'grove' in a sentence
grove
White and yellow daisies adorn fields, orchards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
There is a roof terrace with views across the olive groves too, plus a large swimming pool.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Help yourself to eggs from the roaming hens, oil harvested from the olive groves and vegetables and herbs from the garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The grounds, with two pools and olive groves, are tended by a team of six gardeners.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
An olive grove is alight, fire spreading in the dry heat, and the hillside is consumed by flames.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
We have revived the neglected olive groves and will have a cash crop this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We drove south through beautiful mountain valleys carpeted with olive groves and orange orchards.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He took us to the coast and through the citrus groves.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Leave the car and enter the grove of hollow oaks.
Begg, Ean & Rich, Deike On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition (1991)
The refugees chop down trees in the surrounding olive groves for fuel.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
On both sides stretched green fields dotted with groves of palm trees and marsh grass.
Oliver Poole BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad (2003)
It is within walking distance of the city centre and has a small olive grove.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We could hear the soldiers running through the olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They can see round corners into beautiful olive groves and fruit orchards.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Soldiers scan the surrounding palm groves for any sign of movement in the long grass.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It is surrounded by olive groves and fields of vivid green spring crops.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Then he pulled me toward a grove of mountain oaks that was about a third of the way down the ridge.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But slim as the groves of birch trees were, they were not silver.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Orlando's beauty was built amidst citrus groves.
The Sun (2014)
The three-quarters of an acre of grounds include pretty terraces and small olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There are also 25 acres of arable and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The olive groves surrounding ancient Roman ruins are a favourite picnic spot for locals.
The Sun (2013)
There's just one bedroom that leads to a large sun terrace with views over the vineyards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A paradox pervades the Sicilian citrus groves and gardens.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
With a pool, and surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, it ticks your boxes.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The beautiful landscape is peppered with fragrant green pine trees, olive groves, lemon orchards and vineyards.
The Sun (2014)
The pool is 18 metres by 4 metres with great views across rolling hills with olive grove and oak woods.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Strong ankles and spatial awareness are essential, as you will mostly be performing interminable dance routines on flights of steps or while running through groves of trees.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I pedal contentedly along in the sunshine, passing almond tree groves with white blossom and crossing the ancient arched bridges that link one hillside from the next.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In other languages
grove
British English: grove NOUN
A grove is a group of trees that are close together.
...open fields and groves of trees.
American English: grove
Brazilian Portuguese: arvoredo
Chinese: 树丛
European Spanish: arboleda
French: bosquet
German: Hain
Italian: boschetto
Japanese: 果樹園
Korean: 작은 숲
European Portuguese: arvoredo
Latin American Spanish: arboleda
All related terms of 'grove'
oak grove
a small group or orchard of oak trees
beech grove
a grove of beech trees
hazel grove
a plantation of hazel trees
lemon grove
a group of lemon trees that are close together
palm grove
a group of palm trees growing close together
pine grove
a group of pine trees that are close together
Garden Grove
city in SW Calif.: pop. 165,000
orange grove
a grove of orange trees
the grove of Academe
the academic world
(noun)
Definition
a small wood or group of trees
open fields and groves of trees
Synonyms
wood
woodland
the strip of woodland which bordered the stream
plantation
covert
hurst (archaic)
thicket
a bamboo thicket
copse
brake
coppice
spinney
A spinney of thorn hung on the craggy edge of the hill.
Additional synonyms
in the sense of covert
Definition
a thicket or woodland providing shelter for game
Synonyms
thicket,
bushes,
brush (archaic),
underwood,
undergrowth,
shrubbery,
coppice
in the sense of spinney
Definition
a small wood
A spinney of thorn hung on the craggy edge of the hill.