Grove

Grove

People, places, and things commonly known as grove include:
* A small group of trees such as a sequoia grove; see grove (nature)
* A small group of trees used as a place of pagan worship: see Sacred grove. The most famous sacred grove in Greece was at Dodona; see Temenos.

People

* Amanda Grove, Court TV personality
* Andrew Grove, principal executive of Intel Corporation
* Betty Ann Grove, American actress
* Bob Grove, American journalist
* Charlotte Grove, British diarist
* Cypress Grove, British guitarist
* David Grove, archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar
* David Grove (illustrator), illustrator
* Edwin Wiley Grove, Druggist and Millionaire
* Eric Grove, naval historian
* Frederick Philip Grove "alias" Felix Paul Greve, German-Canadian author
* John L. Grove, American industrialist
* Matthew J. Grove, teacher at Harvard university
* Sir George Grove, writer on music
* Jake Grove, American football offensive lineman
* Lefty Grove, baseball pitcher
* Timothy Grove, PHP programer
* Tony Grove, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Nottingham Trent University
* William Grove:
** William Barry Grove, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
** William Robert Grove, scientist

Also
* "The Grove Family", an early British television soap opera

Places

* In England:
** Grove, Buckinghamshire
** Grove, Dorset
** Grove, Herefordshire gbmapping|SO615445
** Grove, Kent
** Grove, Nottinghamshire
** Grove, Oxfordshire
** Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham
* In Northern Ireland
** Grove, A small area in belfast with grove park and grove well being center (in construction due January 2008, The grove well being center is currently in construction in grove park and should be completed by jan 2008, And Grove primary school

* in USA:
** Bohemian Grove
** Coconut Grove, a neighborhood of Miami, Florida
** Grove, Maine
** Grove, New York
** Grove, Oklahoma
** Grove, Virginia
** Grove City, Minnesota
** Grove City, Ohio
** Grove City, Pennsylvania
** Grove Hill, Alabama

* in Spain
** O Grove, Galicia

* in Germany:
** Grove, Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein

Things

*"The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", an encyclopedia of music, originally edited by Sir George Grove, above
*New Grove Dictionary of Opera a sister publication,
*Grove Dictionary of Art another

In the Bible

In the King James Bible, the name of the Canaanite goddess Asherah is uniformly mistranslated "grove".

See also

* The Grove
* Groves
* Grover


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  • Grove — ist der Name folgender Orte: in Deutschland, siehe Grove (Schleswig Holstein) in Dänemark Grove (Brøndum Sogn) bei Brøndum Sogn, Skive Kommune Grove (Grove Sogn) bei Grove Sogn, Herning Kommune in England: Grove (Buckinghamshire) Grove (Dorset)… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • GROVE (A.) — GROVE Andrew (1936 ) Depuis 1987, Andy Grove dirige Intel (Integrated Electronics), le premier fabricant mondial de microprocesseurs, cette fameuse petite tranche de silicium qui pilote les ordinateurs. Créée en 1968 à Santa Clara, près de San… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • grove — [grəuv US grouv] n [: Old English; Origin: graf] 1.) a piece of land with trees growing on it grove of ▪ a small grove of beech trees olive/lemon/palm etc grove ▪ He owns an orange grove near Tel Aviv. 2.) Grove …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Grove —   [grəʊv],    1) Frederick Philip, eigentlich Felix Paul Greve, kanadischer Schriftsteller deutscher Herkunft, * Radomno (Westpreußen) 14. 2. 1879, ✝ bei Simcoe (Provinz Ontario) 19. 8. 1948; wuchs in Hamburg auf, studierte in Bonn und …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Grove — (Эль Грове,Испания) Категория отеля: 1 звездочный отель Адрес: Rosalía de Castro, 51, 36980 Эль Гр …   Каталог отелей

  • Grove — (gr[=o]v), n. [AS. graf, fr. grafan to dig. The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See {Grave}, v., and cf. {Groove}.] A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • grove — [ grouv ] noun count a group of trees of a particular type, especially trees arranged in lines: an orange/olive grove a grove of coconut trees …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Grove — Grove, OK U.S. city in Oklahoma Population (2000): 5131 Housing Units (2000): 2807 Land area (2000): 9.014379 sq. miles (23.347133 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.054273 sq. miles (0.140566 sq. km) Total area (2000): 9.068652 sq. miles (23.487699 sq …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Grove, OK — U.S. city in Oklahoma Population (2000): 5131 Housing Units (2000): 2807 Land area (2000): 9.014379 sq. miles (23.347133 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.054273 sq. miles (0.140566 sq. km) Total area (2000): 9.068652 sq. miles (23.487699 sq. km) FIPS …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • grove — grove·less; man·grove; grove; …   English syllables

  • Grove — Grove, George Grove, O …   Enciclopedia Universal

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