grove

Meanings

Noun

• A small forest.
• An orchard of fruit trees.
• A place of worship.
• A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

Verb

• To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
• To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
• To plough or gouge with lines.

Related

Similar words

• groove

Origin

• From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa; compare English groove. Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe and Old English grǣfa. More at greave.