What does drove mean?
Definitions for drove
droʊvdrove
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Princeton's WordNet
drovenoun
a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
drove, horde, swarmnoun
a moving crowd
drove, drove chiselnoun
a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
Wiktionary
drovenoun
A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
drovenoun
A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
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drovenoun
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven
droveverb
to herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
Webster Dictionary
Drove
of Drive
Drove
of Drive
Drovenoun
a collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body
Drovenoun
any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove
Drovenoun
a crowd of people in motion
Drovenoun
a road for driving cattle; a driftway
Drovenoun
a narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land
Drovenoun
a broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel
Drovenoun
the grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work
Etymology: [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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.]
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Rank popularity for the word 'drove' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2790
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Rank popularity for the word 'drove' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3418
Anagrams for drove »
Dover
Roved
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of drove in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of drove in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of drove in a Sentence
I kept recording, and to my amazement the 'dead' animal got to its feet and they both ran away, the animals bolted past my car, I drove after them for a few seconds but they ran into thick bush and was unable to follow them.
The conversations with Tony Dungy, the experiences Tony Dungy had with seeing Tony being humiliated, really drove my father to try and do something, whether the rule is the right answer or not, or whether we need to do more, I think we should be considering those questions. But the experience of having someone you respect, under your own leadership, be humiliated, made a real difference to my father.
I drove her straight to the hospital, she was shaking and twitching – it was horrible to see my little girl like that, they said it was sepsis and thought they would have to operate.
I actually drove past this( stadium) a lot when I was a kid, i grew up watching all these great players winning it so just to come from being a kid in the audience to being the one holding the trophy would mean a lot.
Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus:
One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation state of Syria, the rise of ISIS, was the effect of climate change and the mega drought the affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis, it created the symptoms – or rather the conditions – of extreme poverty that lead now to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence.
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