Definitions for drove
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drove(noun)

   a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together

2. drove, horde, swarm(noun)

   a moving crowd

3. drove, drove chisel(noun)

   a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drove(Noun)

   A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

2. drove(Noun)

   A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

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3. drove(Noun)

   A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven

4. drove(Verb)

   to herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drove

   of Drive

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

2. Drove

   of Drive

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

3. Drove(noun)

   a collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

4. Drove(noun)

   any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

5. Drove(noun)

   a crowd of people in motion

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

6. Drove(noun)

   a road for driving cattle; a driftway

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

7. Drove(noun)

   a narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

8. Drove(noun)

   a broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

9. Drove(noun)

   the grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work

   Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drove

   drōv, pa.t. of Drive.—n. a number of cattle, or other animals, driven.—n. Drov′er, one whose occupation is to drive cattle: (Spens.) a boat. [A.S. dráf—drífan, to drive.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'drove' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2790

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'drove' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3418

Anagrams for drove »

1. Dover

2. Roved

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of drove in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of drove in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of drove in a Sentence

1. Hoda Kotb:

   She asked for people not to come to her house yesterday so I got out of the airport and drove to her house.

2. Oren Gutfeld:

   In the last few years we noticed new pieces of scrolls and parchments arrive on the black market, it drove us to return to the caves.

3. Sallust:

   Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

4. Peter Fonda:

   ... and Peter Fonda put Peter Fonda hands on my shoulders and it was the oddest sensation of both him pushing me away and pulling me to Peter Fonda. Tears streaming down Peter Fonda face, Peter Fonda said in that beautiful Henry Fonda, Peter Fonda straight talk,' I love you very much, son.' ' Well, I love you very much, dad.' And I got in my car and drove away,'.

5. Tom Robbins:

   When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

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