Noun: drove
| Singular | drove |
| Plural | droves |
Sample Sentences
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in droves
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The boy hunters had arrived at the wood grove, far off from the wary drove of hares, who resumed foraging cautiously, as before. [2026, T.D. Motley, Planting and Painting the Landscape: A Sequel to The Art of Farming, Stoney Creek Publishing Group:]
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she and her companion got among a regular drove of hares [1894, Dromas, “Review of Coursing Season, 1893-94”, in The Greyhound Stud Book, volume Volume 13, National Coursing Club, page 120:]
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The winner got amongst a drove of hares, and was run to a stand still. [1892, Robert Abram Welsh, Thomas Thacker, “The Coursing Catalogue”, in The [afterw.] Thacker's Courser's annual remembrancer and stud book, by T. Thacker (R.A. Welsh), page 260:]
Nouns inflected like drove
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
drove', Dutch Nouns '
dreef', Swedish Nouns '
drev', Icelandic Nouns '
dreif'.