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GROVE
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Southern French
Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived by an
oak tree or oak grove, from Occitan garric (masculine) ‘kermes
oak’ or garrique (feminine) ‘grove of kermes oaks’.English (Norfolk) : variant of Geary 2.A bearer with the secondary surname
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English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria, and in some cases the surname will have arisen from these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.
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English American
Grove dweller. Used as both surname and given name. Famous bearer: American president Grover...
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a grove or thicket, Middle English grove, Old English grÄf.English (Huguenot) : Americanized spelling of the French surname Le Grou(x) or Le Greux (see Groulx).North German form of Grob.North German : habitational name from any of several places named Grove or Groven in Schleswig-Holstein, which derive their name from Middle Low Germany grÅve ‘ditch’, ‘channel’. In some cases the name is a Dutch or Low German form of Grube.Altered form of German Graf.The surnames Grove and Groves are common mainly in the West Midlands. A Huguenot family who acquired the name Grove are descended from a certain Isaac Le Greux or Grou(x) or his brother. They fled from Tours in France in the late 17th century and settled in Spitalfields, London. Their children were known as Grou(x) or Grove; their grandchildren also used the form Grew; but their great-grandchildren, born at the end of the 18th century, were universally Grove.
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English (Berkshire)
English (Berkshire) : habitational name from an unidentified place, possibly named with the Old English personal name Lufa (see Love 1) + Old English grÄf ‘grove’, ‘thicket’.
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English and French
English and French : occupational name for a brothelkeeper, Middle English, Old French holier, hollier (a dissimilated variant of horier ‘pimp’, agent noun from hore, hure ‘whore’, of Germanic origin). It was probably also used as an abusive nickname.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly grove or conspicuous holly tree, from a derivative of Middle English holi(e), holin ‘holly (tree)’ (from Old English hold(g)n).
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a hazelnut tree or grove, Middle English hasel, hesel, or perhaps a habitational name from a minor place named with this word such as Heazille Barton or Heazle Farm in Devon, or from Hessle in East Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, both named from Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ (influenced by Old Norse hesli).French : possibly a topographic name a diminutive of Old French hase, haise ‘hedge’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various places called Hawley. One in Kent is named with Old English hÄlig ‘holy’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, and would therefore have once been the site of a sacred grove. One in Hampshire has as its first element Old English h(e)all ‘hall’, ‘manor’, or healh ‘nook’, ‘corner of land’. However, the surname is common in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and may principally derive from a lost place near Sheffield named Hawley, from Old Norse haugr ‘mound’ + Old English lÄ“ah ‘clearing’.
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English
English : habitational name from Gravely in Cambridgeshire or Graveley in Hertfordshire. The first is possibly from Old English græf ‘pit’, ‘trench’ + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’. The second is from Old English grÇ£fe, grÄf(a) ‘grove’, ‘copse’ + lÄ“ah.Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss Gräffi, a variant of Graf.
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English
English : habitational names from any of a number of places called Hargrave or Hargreave, of which there are examples in Cheshire, Northamptonshire, and Suffolk; all are named with Old English hÄr ‘gray’ or hara ‘hare’ + grÄf ‘grove’ or græfe ‘thicket’.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English cempa ‘warrior’ (or the Old English personal name Cempa) + bearn ‘grove’, ‘wood’. It may also be an altered form of Kimbrough.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kinberg.
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English
English : occupational name from Middle English greyve ‘steward’, from Old Norse greifi or Low German grēve (see Graf).English : topographic name, a variant of Grove.French : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave ‘gravel’ (of Celtic origin).North German : either from the northern form of Graf, but more commonly a topographic name from Middle Low German grave ‘ditch’, ‘moat’, ‘channel’, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named with this word.
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English
English : habitational name from Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester (recorded in 1690 as Hesselgrove), which is named from Old English hæsel ‘hazel(tree)’ + grÄf ‘grove’.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places in West Yorkshire called Lindley, or from Linley in Shropshire and Wiltshire, all named from Old English līn ‘flax’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, with epenthetic -d-, or from another Lindley in West Yorkshire (near Otley), named in Old English as ‘lime wood’, from lind ‘lime tree’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Lindley in Leicestershire probably also has this origin, and is a further possible source of the surname.German : habitational name from places in Bavaria and Hannover called Lindloh, meaning ‘lime grove’, or a topographic name with the same meaning (see Linde + Loh).
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or small grove, Middle English gravette, grevette (from a diminutive of Old English grÄf ‘grove’).Altered spelling of French Gravet, cognate with 1.
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Cornish
Cornish : habitational name from a minor place named Kellow, from Cornish kellow, plural of kelli ‘wood’, ‘grove’.English : habitational name from Kelloe in Durham, named from Old English celf ‘calf’ + hlÄw ‘hill’.Scottish : from the lands of Kelloe in Berwickshire, or in some cases possibly a variant of Kellogg.
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American, Australian, British, Christian, English, German, Jamaican
Wood; Forested Area; From the Grove of Trees; Lives in a Grove
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English
English : variant of Grove 1.
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English
English : habitational name from Kirkshaw in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, so named from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + shaw ‘grove’. There are two minor places in West Yorkshire called Kershaw, which may be of the same origin and may also lie behind the surname, but on the other hand they may themselves derive from the surname. In some cases the name may be topographic for someone who lived near the ‘church grove’.
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Dweller in the Grove
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a.
Of a mean spirit; base; groveling.
n.
A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees.
v. t.
To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Grovel
n.
A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones.
superl.
Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.
v. i.
Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
n.
A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.
v. t.
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
n.
A thicket; a small wood or grove.
n.
A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.
n.
One who grovels; an abject wretch.
v. i.
A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
a.
Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.
imp. & p. p.
of Grovel
n.
A grove of trees; also, a plain.
n.
An olive grove.
n.
A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.