Grove
Encyclopedia
People, places, and things commonly known as grove include:
  • Grove (nature)
    Grove (nature)
    A grove is a small group of trees with minimal or no undergrowth, such as a sequoia grove, or a small orchard planted for the cultivation of fruits or nuts...

    , a small group of trees
  • Sacred grove
    Sacred grove
    A sacred grove is a grove of trees of special religious importance to a particular culture. Sacred groves were most prominent in the Ancient Near East and prehistoric Europe, but feature in various cultures throughout the world...

    , a small group of trees used as a place of worship

People

  • Amanda Grove
    Amanda Grove
    Amanda Grove is a former CourtTV anchor. She joined CourtTV in March 2002. She anchored the network's live hourly "Newsbreaks," and served as substitute anchor for the network's daily live trial coverage programs. She also reported from courtroom trials around the country as part of Court TV's...

    , Court TV personality
  • Andrew Grove
    Andrew Grove
    Andrew Stephen Grove , is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American Businessman/ Engineer, Author & a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the U.S., where he finished his education...

    , principal executive of Intel Corporation
  • Betty Ann Grove
    Betty Ann Grove
    Betty Ann Grove is an American actress and singer. A petite redhead with a powerful voice, she recorded in the 1950s. In 1950, she debuted on Broadway in the 1948 original production of Kiss Me Kate, playing Lois Lane/Bianca, a lead role that was originated by Lisa Kirk...

    , American actress
  • Charlotte Grove
    Charlotte Grove
    Charlotte Grove was first child and eldest daughter of Thomas Grove, a landowner of Ferne House, in Wiltshire, by his marriage to Charlotte Pilfold.She was the sister of Harriet Grove, known as the "first love" of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley....

    , British diarist
  • David Grove
    David Grove
    David C. Grove is an American anthropologist, archaeologist and academic, known for his contributions and research into the Preclassic period cultures of Mesoamerica, in particular those of the Mexican altiplano and Gulf Coast regions...

    , archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar
  • Edwin Wiley Grove
    Edwin Wiley Grove
    Edwin Wiley Grove was a self-made millionaire most famous for his "Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic." In this chill tonic, which came out 1878, Grove found a way to bottle a quinine mixture that would eliminate the bitter taste...

    , Druggist and Millionaire
  • Eric Grove
    Eric Grove
    Eric Grove is a British naval historian and defence analyst who teaches at the University of Salford in Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...

    , naval historian
  • Frederick Philip Grove
    Frederick Philip Grove
    Frederick Philip Grove was born Felix Paul Greve in Radomno, West Prussia, German Empire . He was best known as a prolific translator before he left Berlin for start a new life in North America in late July 1909...

     alias Felix Paul Greve, German-Canadian author
  • John L. Grove
    John L. Grove
    John L. Grove was an American inventor and industrialist, primarily known for developing the hydraulic crane and access lift industries....

    , American industrialist
  • Kendall Grove
    Kendall Grove
    Kendall Kekoa Grove is an American mixed martial artist. He was the winner of The Ultimate Fighter 3 on Spike TV.- Early life :...

    , Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
  • George Grove
    George Grove
    Sir George Grove, CB was an English writer on music, known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians....

    , writer on music
  • Jake Grove
    Jake Grove
    Charles Jacob Grove is a retired American football center, most recently for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft...

    , American football offensive lineman
  • Lefty Grove
    Lefty Grove
    Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was a professional baseball pitcher. After having success in the minor leagues during the early 1920s, Grove became a star in Major League Baseball with the American League's Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, winning 300 games in his 17-year MLB career...

    , baseball pitcher
  • William Grove (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Alex Grove
    Alex Grove
    Alex Grove is a Scottish rugby union player for Worcester Warriors in the Aviva Premiership.He plays as a centre but can also play on the wing.Grove previously played for Scotland at under-18, under-19, and under-20 level...

    , rugby player

Places

  • In England:
    • Grove, Buckinghamshire
      Grove, Buckinghamshire
      Grove is a tiny village in the parish of Slapton, Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the border with Bedfordshire, just to the north of Mentmore. It is the size of some hamlets, but it is distinct as a village because it had its own parish church. The place name is fairly self explanatory, as it...

    • Grove, Dorset
    • Grove, Herefordshire
    • Grove, Kent
    • Grove, Nottinghamshire
      Grove, Nottinghamshire
      Grove is a small village, lying about 2 miles south-west of Retford, Nottinghamshire. In fact, the parklands of Grove Hall separate it from Retford town, and a set of gates for Grove Hall can be found near the London Road, the A638....

    • Grove, Oxfordshire
      Grove, Oxfordshire
      Grove is a village and civil parish on Letcombe Brook about north of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.-Parish churches:...

    • Grove Park, Lewisham in the London Borough of Lewisham
  • In the Republic of Ireland:
    • Grove, County Leitrim
  • In Northern Ireland
    • Grove, a small area in Belfast
      Belfast
      Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

       with grove park and grove well being center (in construction due January 2008)
  • in USA:
    • Bohemian Grove
      Bohemian Grove
      Bohemian Grove is a campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men's art club known as the Bohemian Club...

    • Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida, a neighborhood of Miami, Florida
    • Grove, California
      Grove, California
      Grove is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located on the California Western Railroad north-northwest of Comptche, at an elevation of 404 feet ....

    • Grove, Maine
    • Grove, New York
      Grove, New York
      Grove is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. The population was 533 at the 2000 census.The Town of Grove, in the northeast part of Allegany County, is northwest of Hornell, New York.- History :...

    • Grove, Oklahoma
      Grove, Oklahoma
      Grove is a city in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 5,131 at the 2000 census, but the 2009 estimate was 6,377.-Geography:Grove is located at ....

    • Grove, Virginia
      Grove, Virginia
      Grove is an unincorporated community in the southeastern portion of James City County in the Peninsula subregion of Virginia in the United States. It is located in the center of the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia, communities linked by the Colonial Parkway; the area is one of the busiest...

    • Grove City, Minnesota
      Grove City, Minnesota
      Grove City is a city in Meeker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 635 at the 2010 census.U.S. Route 12 and Minnesota State Highway 4 are two of the main arterial routes in the community.-Geography:...

    • Grove City, Ohio
      Grove City, Ohio
      As of the census of 2000, there were 27,075 people, 10,265 households, and 7,544 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,941.2 people per square mile . There were 10,712 housing units at an average density of 768.0 per square mile...

    • Grove City, Pennsylvania
      Grove City, Pennsylvania
      Grove City is a borough in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, approximately north of Pittsburgh. It is the home of Grove City College, a private conservative Christian liberal arts college; General Electric; Instron; USIS; George G. Howe Co.; and a number of small businesses. It is also the home to...

    • Grove Hill, Alabama
      Grove Hill, Alabama
      Grove Hill is a town in Clarke County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 1,438. It is the county seat of Clarke County and home of the Clarke County Museum.-History:...

    • Ocean Grove, New Jersey
      Ocean Grove, New Jersey
      Ocean Grove is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Neptune Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It had a population of 3,342 at the 2010 census. It is located on the Atlantic Ocean Jersey Shore, between Asbury Park to the north and Bradley Beach to the south...

    • Pacific Grove, California
      Pacific Grove, California
      Pacific Grove is a coastal city in Monterey County, California, USA, with a population of 15,041 as of the 2010 census, down from 15,522 as of the 2000 census...

    • Cottage Grove, Oregon
      Cottage Grove, Oregon
      Cottage Grove is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It received its name from its first postmaster, G. C. Pierce, in September 1861. Pierce's home at the time was in an oak grove. The population was 9,686 at the 2010 census.-History:...


  • in Spain
    • O Grove
      O Grove
      O Grove , Ogrobe is a municipality belonging to the province of Pontevedra, in Galicia, Spain.A peninsula that faces the Atlantic Ocean and the shores of O Salnés valley, enclosed by the southern Galician estuaries, the so-called "Rías Baixas"....

      , Galicia

  • in Germany:
    • Grove, Germany
      Grove, Germany
      Grove is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....

      , in Schleswig-Holstein

Things

  • Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, an encyclopedia of music, originally edited by Sir George Grove, above
  • New Grove Dictionary of Opera
    New Grove Dictionary of Opera
    The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes....

     a sister publication
  • Grove Dictionary of Art
    Grove Dictionary of Art
    Grove Art Online, formerly The Dictionary of Art but usually known as The Grove Dictionary of Art, is a large encyclopedia of art, now part of the online reference publications of Oxford University Press, and previously a 34-volume printed encyclopedia when last published on paper in 1996...

     another
  • Grove Press
    Grove Press
    Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1951. Imprints include: Black Cat, Evergreen, Venus Library, Zebra. Barney Rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the United States. The Atlantic Monthly Press, under the aegis of its...

     - American alternative book publisher
  • Grove cell
    Grove cell
    The Grove cell was an early electric primary cell named after its inventor, British chemist William Robert Grove, and consisted of a zinc anode in dilute sulfuric acid and a platinum cathode in concentrated nitric acid, the two separated by a porous ceramic pot.-Cell details:The Grove cell voltage...

    , a type of electric battery
  • Cypress Grove (disambiguation), see other meanings

Other

  • In the King James Bible, the name of the Canaanite goddess Asherah
    Asherah
    Asherah , in Semitic mythology, is a Semitic mother goddess, who appears in a number of ancient sources including Akkadian writings by the name of Ashratum/Ashratu and in Hittite as Asherdu or Ashertu or Aserdu or Asertu...

     and the associated cult object Asherah pole
    Asherah pole
    An Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother-goddess Asherah, consort of El...

     are uniformly mistranslated as "grove".
  • The Grove Family
    The Grove Family
    The Grove Family is a British television soap opera, generally regarded as the first of its kind broadcast in the UK, made and transmitted by BBC Television from 1954 to 1957...

    , an early British television soap opera

See also

  • The Grove (disambiguation)
  • Groves (disambiguation)
  • Grover
    Grover
    Grover is a Muppet character on the popular television show Sesame Street. Self-described as lovable, cute and furry, he is a monster who almost never uses contractions when speaking or singing....

  • Holt (disambiguation)
  • Groove (disambiguation)
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