grove

noun

ˈgrōv 

1

: a small wood without underbrush

a picnic grove

2

: a planting of fruit or nut trees

Examples of grove in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And the damage goes far beyond the groves themselves. —Paul Meador, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2026

The National Museum of Korea is a short walk from my home, set among bamboo groves and pagodas. —Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 11 June 2026

There is a heated salt-water swimming pool, vast gardens and terraces, and a boat house, as well as a separate farmhouse, chapel, a private vineyard, an olive grove and orchards with apricot and plum trees. —Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 10 June 2026

Umbria — the only Italian region with no coastline and no foreign border — delivers Tuscany-style hill towns, olive groves and Lake Trasimeno without the tour buses. —Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English grāf

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for grove

• cove
• drove
• rove
• shrove
• stove
• strove
• throve
• trove
• wove
• alcove
• mangrove

Kids Definition

grove

noun

ˈgrōv 

: a small wood

especially : a group of trees without underbrush

an orange grove

Biographical Definition

Grove

biographical name

ˈgrōv 

Sir George 1820–1900 English musicologist