drove

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹəʊv/
  • Rhymes: -əʊv
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• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɔʊf/

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English drove, drof, draf, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“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)

1. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

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3. (collective) A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

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6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

Derived terms

• in droves

Translations

a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures

• Bulgarian: черда (čerda), стадо (bg) (stado)
• Dutch: kudde (nl)
• French: troupeau (fr) m, manade (fr) f, horde (fr) f
• German: Herde (de) f
• Italian: mandria (it) f, armento (it) m, branco (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: whiunga
• Russian: гурт (ru) m (gurt), ста́до (ru) n (stádo)
• Serbo-Croatian: stado (sh) n
• Spanish: manada (es) f, tropa (es) f (Arg., Bol., Par. and Ur.)
• Welsh: diadell f, gyr m, praidd m, haid f

a large number of people on the move

• French: foule (fr) f
• Italian: calca (it) f, massa (it) f
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• Russian: толпа́ (ru) f (tolpá)
• Spanish: legión (es) f

a road or track along which cattle are habitually driven

• Italian: pista (it) f, passaggi obbligati m pl, attraversamento (it) m
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• Spanish: cañada (es), vía pecuaria

Etymology 2

From earlier drave, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English drave, draf, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).

Verb

drove

1. simple past of drive
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
   • Paterson

     He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.

2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

Translations

to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance

• Italian: transumare, condurre (it), guidare (it)
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• Maori: whiu, whiuwhiu kararehe

Anagrams

• Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored

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Adjective

drove

1. Alternative form of drof

References

• “drof (adj.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 June 2018.