grove English · revision 15157

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ɡrəʊv/, US /ɡroʊv/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|grove]], [[inh|ang|grāf|t=grove, copse, small wood]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) related to [[m|ang|grǣfa|t=brushwood, thicket]],^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(Collins 2023) and perhaps to [[no|greivla|t=to branch out]].^(MWU 2024) It has no certain cognates in other Germanic languages, and it cannot be derived by sound changes from [[m|ang|grafan|t=to dig]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A small wood: 889.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) It appears in the place name Holgrove in 1128–35, and as Middle English grove probably before 1200, in Layamon.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Transferred and figurative groves are from 1667.^(OED 1989) The English Bible of 1535 used grove to translate a Hebrew word now understood as the name of a goddess, Asherah, and another now rendered as tamarisk tree.^(OED 1989) ''The groves of Academe'' are the shaded walks of the Academy at Athens.^(Etymonline) A suburban road lined with houses and trees is often called a Grove in street names.^(Collins 2023) In Lincolnshire dialect a grove was a ditch or watercourse.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 889 – a small wood.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1128–35 – Holgrove (place name).^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1535 – in Bible translation.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1667 – figurative groves.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small wood or group of trees without dense undergrowth.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # An [[orchard]] of fruit or nut trees.^(AHD)

+ # A road lined with houses and often trees, especially in a [[suburb]], often part of a street name.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[groved]]

+ * [[groveless]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mangrove]]

+ * [[greave]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}