Other forms: groves
A grove is a small group of trees growing together. An olive grove, a grove of oaks, walk in the grove.
It is smaller than a wood and often planted rather than wild, which is why olive, orange and almond groves are the commonest uses. Sacred groves are protected patches of old woodland in many cultures and are often the last remnants of forest in a region. Note that the word is Old English.
1noungroveA small group of trees growing together.
“We sat in the shade of an olive grove and ate our lunch.”
grove is a group of trees.
Old English graf means a grove or copse, from a Germanic root about branches.
Proto-Germanic
*graibaz
Proto-West Germanic
*graib
Old English
grāf
Middle English
grove
English, today
grove
Built from
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic graib, graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic graibaz, graibô (“branch, fork”). Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA