groven.

Brit.

/ɡrəʊv/, U.S.

/ɡroʊv/

Forms: Old English–Middle English gráf, Middle English grof(e, 1500s Scottish grave, grawe, 1500s–1600s groave, Middle English– grove.

Etymology: Old English gráf masculine and neuter < prehistoric *graiƀo- . Compare greave n.¹The word is not found in any other Germanic language, and no Germanic or even Indogermanic root seems to be known to which it can plausibly be referred.

a. A small wood; a group of trees affording shade or forming avenues or walks, occurring naturally or planted for a special purpose.Groves were commonly planted by heathen peoples in honour of deities to serve as places of worship or for the reception of images. Cf. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove

hurst822

grove889

wood bough?c1225

wood lay?c1225

wood lind?c1225

wood rise?c1225

spring1396

firth?a1400

berwec1440

spring?c1475

grovet1504

coppice1538

copsewood1543

sherwood1562

hewt1575

copse1578

grove-crop1582

berrie1591

low wood1591

spinney1597

spinet1604

spring wood1607

roughet1616

oart1690

toft1706

under-grove1731

bosket1737

busket1803

889 Grant in Birch Cartul. Sax. II. 199 Heo hæbbe ða wudu-raeddenne in ðæm wuda ðe ða ceorlas brucaþ & ec ic hire lete to þæt ceorla graf.

1249–52 Visit. Ch. belong. St. Paul's Cathedr. (Camden) 13 Tenentes de ecclesia de Heubrege. Johannes Gobbe j acra et reddit vj đ..Johannes ad portam j parvam grovam et reddit iiij đ sed grova destructa est.]

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 380 He..hupth and stard suthe cove, And secheth pathes to the grove.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 236 Al swa þat wilde swin þat wroteð ȝeond þan grouen [c1300 Otho groue].

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 11 Eueriche grove schoon wiþ horten treen and oþer tren ful of fruyt.

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2481 The birdis may them hiding in the grawis Wel frome the halk.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. ii. 46 Scho skipping furth..Gan throw the forrest fast and gravis glyde.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 190 In gresy gravis wandrand by spring wellis.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13557 Þan se þai besyde..A grete herte in a grove.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 391 I,..like a forrester, the groues may tread.

1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 1262 Such vncouth flames made men the Temple leaue Worship to Images in groaues to giue.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 478 Proud Monarch of the Groves, whose clashing Beam His Rivals aw'd.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 361 The breezy covert of the warbling grove.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxiv. 358 The temple stood in a grove of fruit trees.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 301 The forest..was a vast grove of majestic palms.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster

lumpc1380

clustera1400

knotc1400

community?1541

plump1553

clustering1576

clumpa1586

grove1667

skein1709

snuggle1901

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 982 When a field Of Ceres ripe for harvest waving bends Her bearded Grove of ears.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 404 Through Groves Of Coral.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 241 The Olive Grove of Academe, Plato's retirement. ]

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 182 The moving Host appears, With nodding Plumes and Groves of waving Spears.

1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 157 They who live Shelter'd, and flourish in a little grove Of their own kindred.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 143 Labour, and pain, and grief, in life's green grove Sport like tame beasts.

1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. viii. 142 The groves of Athenian literature.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xviii. 166 Into this certainly not the least snugly sheltered arbour among the groves of Academe, Pen now found his way.

1888 J. Ruskin Præterita III. ii. 49 The sunset shining down a long street through a grove of bayonets.

2. In English versions of the Bible, e.g. Coverdale's and the King James Version, used (following the Septuagint and the Vulgate) to render:

a. Hebrew Ashērāh, which is now understood as the name of a goddess or of a pillar serving as an idol.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > in monstrous or non-natural form

idolc1400

grove1535

the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > Syrian > Asherah

grove1535

Asherah1860

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xviii. 19 The foure hundreth and fiftye prophetes of Baal, and the foure hundreth prophetes of y^e groue, which eate at Iesabels table.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xxi. 7 He set a grauen image of the grove [ Coverd. groue Idol, L. idolum luci, R.V. of Asherah, margin. or obelisk] that he had made, in the house.

1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. vii. 108 The prophets of the grove were building their own power upon the degradation of the multitudes whom they drew after them.

b. Hebrew ēshel (Revised Version ‘tamarisk tree’).

ΚΠ

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxii. 6 Whyle Saul dwelt at Gibea vnder a groue in Rama.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxi. 33 And Abraham planted a groue [margin. Or, Tree, Coverd. trees, L. nemus] in Beer-sheba.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

grove idol n. (See 2.)

ΚΠ

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xxi. 7 A groue Idol also which he had made, set he in the house.

grove-pine n.

ΚΠ

1873 Atlas of Michigan Pref. 20 Some varieties of ‘grove’ pine are found on a lighter soil.

grove-spirit n.

grove-tree n.

ΚΠ

1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 353 The adjoining space..is massed up with Grove Trees and Underwood.

grove-worship n.

ΚΠ

1845 A. Duncan Disc. 387 Abraham worshipped under an oak or in a grove..We shall thus be able to account for..the origin of grove-worship.

grove-encircled adj.

ΚΠ

1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. v, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 671/1 A mystic grove-encircled shrine.

grove-like adj.

ΚΠ

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 77 That old oak,..Once grovelike, each huge arm a tree.

C2.

† grove-crop n. Obsolete a grove.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove

hurst822

grove889

wood bough?c1225

wood lay?c1225

wood lind?c1225

wood rise?c1225

spring1396

firth?a1400

berwec1440

spring?c1475

grovet1504

coppice1538

copsewood1543

sherwood1562

hewt1575

copse1578

grove-crop1582

berrie1591

low wood1591

spinney1597

spinet1604

spring wood1607

roughet1616

oart1690

toft1706

under-grove1731

bosket1737

busket1803

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 In towns myd center theare sprouted a groauecrop, in arbours Greene weede thick shaded.

grove-dock n. Rumex Nemolapathum (Paxton Bot. Dict. 1840).

† grove marjoram n. Obsolete wild marjoram, Origanum vulgare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > marjoram

organOE

marjorama1393

origanuma1398

origan?1440

organuma1450

orgament1552

grove marjoram1578

goat's marjoram1597

goat's organy1597

orgamy1609

field marjoram1640

origany1728

hop-plant1817

mastic1852

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxix. 236 Origanum Heracleoticum. Spanish Origan. Bastard Margerom. Origanum syluestre. Wilde Origan. Groue Margerom.

grove-snail n. (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > genus Helix > helix nemoralis or shell of

pooty1821

wood-snail1831

grove-snail1861

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 174 The Wood snail, Helix Sylvatica, Drap., and the Grove snail, H. Nemoralis, Linn.

Derivatives

ˈgroveless adj. devoid of groves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > lacking

woodless1551

unshrubbeda1616

unwooded1628

treeless1794

uncypressed1799

untimbered1808

shrubless1816

bushless1830

groveless1835

timberless1859

forestless1884

unforested1885

1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 686 Even were her shore~hills silvan no more—groveless the bases of all her remoter mountains.

1873 McArthur in Harp Renfrewsh. 391 These groveless banks, those ruined walls.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grove
释义	groven. Brit. /ɡrəʊv/, U.S. /ɡroʊv/ Forms: Old English–Middle English gráf, Middle English grof(e, 1500s Scottish grave, grawe, 1500s–1600s groave, Middle English– grove. Etymology: Old English gráf masculine and neuter < prehistoric graiƀo- . Compare greave n.¹The word is not found in any other Germanic language, and no Germanic or even Indogermanic root seems to be known to which it can plausibly be referred. 1. a. A small wood; a group of trees affording shade or forming avenues or walks, occurring naturally or planted for a special purpose.Groves were commonly planted by heathen peoples in honour of deities to serve as places of worship or for the reception of images. Cf. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove hurst822 grove889 wood bough?c1225 wood lay?c1225 wood lind?c1225 wood rise?c1225 spring1396 firth?a1400 berwec1440 spring?c1475 grovet1504 coppice1538 copsewood1543 sherwood1562 hewt1575 copse1578 grove-crop1582 berrie1591 low wood1591 spinney1597 spinet1604 spring wood1607 roughet1616 oart1690 toft1706 under-grove1731 bosket1737 busket1803 889 Grant* in Birch Cartul. Sax. II. 199 Heo hæbbe ða wudu-raeddenne in ðæm wuda ðe ða ceorlas brucaþ & ec ic hire lete to þæt ceorla graf. 1249–52 Visit. Ch. belong. St. Paul's Cathedr. (Camden) 13 Tenentes de ecclesia de Heubrege. Johannes Gobbe j acra et reddit vj đ..Johannes ad portam j parvam grovam et reddit iiij đ sed grova destructa est.] a1250 Owl & Nightingale 380 He..hupth and stard suthe cove, And secheth pathes to the grove. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 236 Al swa þat wilde swin þat wroteð ȝeond þan grouen [c1300 Otho groue]. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 11 Eueriche grove schoon wiþ horten treen and oþer tren ful of fruyt. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2481 The birdis may them hiding in the grawis Wel frome the halk. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. ii. 46 Scho skipping furth..Gan throw the forrest fast and gravis glyde. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 190 In gresy gravis wandrand by spring wellis. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13557 Þan se þai besyde..A grete herte in a grove. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 391 I,..like a forrester, the groues may tread. View more context for this quotation 1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 1262 Such vncouth flames made men the Temple leaue Worship to Images in groaues to giue. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 478 Proud Monarch of the Groves, whose clashing Beam His Rivals aw'd. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 361 The breezy covert of the warbling grove. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxiv. 358 The temple stood in a grove of fruit trees. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 301 The forest..was a vast grove of majestic palms. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster lumpc1380 clustera1400 knotc1400 community?1541 plump1553 clustering1576 clumpa1586 grove1667 skein1709 snuggle1901 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 982 When a field Of Ceres ripe for harvest waving bends Her bearded Grove of ears. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 404 Through Groves Of Coral. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 241 The Olive Grove of Academe, Plato's retirement. View more context for this quotation] 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 182 The moving Host appears, With nodding Plumes and Groves of waving Spears. 1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 157 They who live Shelter'd, and flourish in a little grove Of their own kindred. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 143 Labour, and pain, and grief, in life's green grove Sport like tame beasts. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. viii. 142 The groves of Athenian literature. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xviii. 166 Into this certainly not the least snugly sheltered arbour among the groves of Academe, Pen now found his way. 1888 J. Ruskin Præterita III. ii. 49 The sunset shining down a long street through a grove of bayonets. 2. In English versions of the Bible, e.g. Coverdale's and the King James Version, used (following the Septuagint and the Vulgate) to render: a. Hebrew Ashērāh, which is now understood as the name of a goddess or of a pillar serving as an idol. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > in monstrous or non-natural form idolc1400 grove1535 the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > Syrian > Asherah grove1535 Asherah1860 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xviii. 19 The foure hundreth and fiftye prophetes of Baal, and the foure hundreth prophetes of y^e groue, which eate at Iesabels table. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xxi. 7 He set a grauen image of the grove [ Coverd. groue Idol, L. idolum luci, R.V. of Asherah, margin. or obelisk] that he had made, in the house. View more context for this quotation 1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. vii. 108 The prophets of the grove were building their own power upon the degradation of the multitudes whom they drew after them. b. Hebrew ēshel (Revised Version ‘tamarisk tree’). ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxii. 6 Whyle Saul dwelt at Gibea vnder a groue in Rama. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxi. 33 And Abraham planted a groue [margin. Or, Tree, Coverd. trees, L. nemus] in Beer-sheba. View more context for this quotation Compounds C1. General attributive. a. grove idol n. (See 2.) ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xxi. 7 A groue Idol also which he had made, set he in the house. grove-pine n. ΚΠ 1873 Atlas of Michigan Pref. 20 Some varieties of ‘grove’ pine are found on a lighter soil. grove-spirit n. grove-tree n. ΚΠ 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 353 The adjoining space..is massed up with Grove Trees and Underwood. grove-worship n. ΚΠ 1845 A. Duncan Disc. 387 Abraham worshipped under an oak or in a grove..We shall thus be able to account for..the origin of grove-worship. b. grove-encircled adj. ΚΠ 1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. v, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 671/1 A mystic grove-encircled shrine. grove-like adj. ΚΠ 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 77 That old oak,..Once grovelike, each huge arm a tree. C2. † grove-crop n. Obsolete a grove. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove hurst822 grove889 wood bough?c1225 wood lay?c1225 wood lind?c1225 wood rise?c1225 spring1396 firth?a1400 berwec1440 spring?c1475 grovet1504 coppice1538 copsewood1543 sherwood1562 hewt1575 copse1578 grove-crop1582 berrie1591 low wood1591 spinney1597 spinet1604 spring wood1607 roughet1616 oart1690 toft1706 under-grove1731 bosket1737 busket1803 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 In towns myd center theare sprouted a groauecrop, in arbours Greene weede thick shaded. grove-dock n. Rumex Nemolapathum (Paxton Bot. Dict. 1840). † grove marjoram n. Obsolete wild marjoram, Origanum vulgare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > marjoram organOE marjorama1393 origanuma1398 origan?1440 organuma1450 orgament1552 grove marjoram1578 goat's marjoram1597 goat's organy1597 orgamy1609 field marjoram1640 origany1728 hop-plant1817 mastic1852 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxix. 236 Origanum Heracleoticum. Spanish Origan. Bastard Margerom. Origanum syluestre. Wilde Origan. Groue Margerom. grove-snail n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > genus Helix > helix nemoralis or shell of pooty1821 wood-snail1831 grove-snail1861 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 174 The Wood snail, Helix Sylvatica, Drap., and the Grove snail, H. Nemoralis, Linn. Derivatives ˈgroveless adj. devoid of groves. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > lacking woodless1551 unshrubbeda1616 unwooded1628 treeless1794 uncypressed1799 untimbered1808 shrubless1816 bushless1830 groveless1835 timberless1859 forestless1884 unforested1885 1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 686 Even were her shore~hills silvan no more—groveless the bases of all her remoter mountains. 1873 McArthur in Harp Renfrewsh. 391 These groveless banks, those ruined walls. 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