groove – English noun declension

English noun forms of groove

Noun: groove
Singulargroove
Pluralgrooves

Sample Sentences

  • Through these distresses, the Odd Girl was cheerful and exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen “Eyes,” and was in hysterics. [1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 4:]
  • The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove. [1873, John Morley, Rousseau:]
  • His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half. [2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:]
  • Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat / And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet [1979, “Rapper's Delight”, performed by The Sugarhill Gang:]
  • Let the music play / He won't get away / This groove he can't ignore [1983, Chris Barbosa, Ed Chisolm, “Let the Music Play”, performed by Shannon:]
  • Get into the groove / Boy, you've got to prove / Your love to me / Get up on your feet / Yeah, step to the beat [1985, Stephen Bray, Madonna, “Into the Groove”, in Like a Virgin, performed by Madonna:]
  • You can't hide forever, just decide to make it better / Turn it into something good / Remember, you can choose not to lose / Find your groove and be a winner [1980, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Turn It Into Something Good”, in Faces (Earth, Wind & Fire album):]
  • How could he be expected to make music that put the audience in a groove, he reasoned, if he wasn't grooving himself? [2010, Jan Reid, Shawn Sahm, Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm, page 57:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”).
2. Cognate with Cimbrian gruuba (“gorge, ravine”), Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Luxembourgish Grouf (“pit, mine”), Mòcheno gruab (“mine”), Icelandic gróf (“pit, hollow”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “foxhole”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Related to Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave. See: Dutch Nouns 'groef', German Nouns 'Grube', Icelandic Nouns 'gróf', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰', Old English Nouns 'grafan'.

Verbs referencing "groove"

French Nouns groove, German Nouns Grube, Finnish Nouns gruuvi, Gothic Nouns 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰, German Nouns Groove, Asturian Nouns engrueba.