Grove
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People, places, and things commonly known as grove include:
- A small group of trees such as a sequoia grove; see grove (nature)
- A small group of trees used as a place of pagan worship: see Sacred grove. The most famous sacred grove in Greece was at Dodona; see Temenos.
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[edit] People
- Amanda Grove, Court TV personality
- Andrew Grove, principal executive of Intel Corporation
- Betty Ann Grove, American actress
- Bob Grove, American journalist
- Charlotte Grove, British diarist
- Cypress Grove, British guitarist
- David Grove, illustrator
- Edwin Wiley Grove, Druggist and Millionaire
- Eric Grove, naval historian
- Frederick Philip Grove alias Felix Paul Greve, German-Canadian author
- John L. Grove, American industrialist
- Sir George Grove, writer on music
- Jake Grove, American football offensive lineman
- Lefty Grove, baseball pitcher
- Tony Grove, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Nottingham Trent University
- William Grove:
- William Barry Grove, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
- William Robert Grove, scientist
Also
- The Grove Family, an early British television soap opera
[edit] Places
- In England:
- Grove, Buckinghamshire
- Grove, Dorset
- Grove, Herefordshire grid reference SO615445
- Grove, Kent
- Grove, Nottinghamshire
- Grove, Oxfordshire
- Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham
- In Northern Ireland
- Grove, A small area in belfast with grove park and grove well being center (in construction due january 2008, The grove well being center is currently in construction in grove park and should be completed by jan 2008, And Grove primary school
- in USA:
- in Germany:
- Grove, Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein
[edit] Things
- The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, an encyclopedia of music, originally edited by Sir George Grove, above
- New Grove Dictionary of Opera a sister publication,
- Grove Dictionary of Art another
[edit] In the Bible
In the King James Bible, the name of the Canaanite goddess Asherah is uniformly mistranslated "grove".