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# grove

noun (a grove, groves)

«grove» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small group of trees, or a small wood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#m1)
2. An orchard of fruit trees, such as an orange grove or olive grove. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#m2)
3. Used in street names: Elm Grove. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories and poems a grove is a quiet, shady, sometimes magical place; in geography, farming of olives and oranges. Phrases: olive grove, orange grove, a shady grove.

### Examples

- We had a picnic in a shady grove of oak trees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x1)
- Olive groves cover the hills in Greece. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x2)
- They picked oranges in the orange grove. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x3)
- The elves lived in a secret grove. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x4)
- My cousin lives on Maple Grove. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x5)
- Birds sang in the grove all morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x6)
- It is like entering a grove of chestnut and walnut-trees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x7)

### Note

Plural groves. A grove is smaller than a wood or a forest. Do not confuse with groove (a long cut) or with grovel.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grove» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grove» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grove.html) on Mova free.