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drove
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d???v/
- Rhymes: -??v
- (General American) IPA: /d?o?v/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) IPA(key): /d??o?v/ (Used in some regions of the US, particularly the Midwest)
Etymology 1
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English dr?f (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draib? (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to support”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.
Noun
drove (plural droves)
- A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
Derived terms
- in droves
Translations
Etymology 2
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English dr?f, first and third person singular indicative preterite of dr?fan (“to drive”).
Verb
drove
- simple past tense of drive
drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)
- To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Devor, Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored
Middle English
Adjective
drove
- Alternative form of drof
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dreve
English
Alternative forms
- drove
Etymology
From Middle English dreven (also droven), from Old English dr?fan, *dr?fian (“to trouble, vex, agitate, disturb the mind of”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?bijan? (“to disturb, excite, make muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reb?- (“to become thick or cloudy, curdle, ferment”). Cognate with Low German dröven, Dutch droeven (“to be sad, grieve”), German trüben (“to dull, dim, cloud, tarnish, trouble”), Swedish bedröva (“to grieve, sadden, distress”). Related to droff.
Verb
dreve (third-person singular simple present dreves, present participle dreving, simple past and past participle dreved)
- (transitive, obsolete) To trouble; afflict; make anxious.
Anagrams
- Dever, Verde
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?v?
Verb
dreve
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of drijven
Anagrams
- veder, verde, vrede
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?dreve]
Noun
dreve n
- locative singular of drevo
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