drove

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. (broadly, figuratively, plural-normally) A large number of people on the move.
3. (collective) A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

Verb

1. (form-of, past) simple past of drive
2. (dialectal, form-of, participle, past) past participle of drive

Verb

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

drive

• Verb
• Noun

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Concepts

troupeau

horde

foule

nuée

conduisirent

entraîné

manade

grouillement

masse

Synonymes

herd

flock

swarm

horde

pack

pride

mob

troop

crowd

drove chisel

gaggle

company

bevy

school

🏫

army

pod

drift

throng

building

brood

battalion

brace

cloud

☁️

clamour

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

boar

🐗

barren

assembly

circle

⭕

chowder

bike

🚲

chipping chisel

field

family

👪

cartload

barrel

flight

✈️

exaltation

flush

erst

gang

grist

group

gulp

harem

busyness

Traductions

manada

rebaño

kudde

grex

αγέλη

sürü

drift

troep

Rudel

gado

ramat

ορδή

Herde

roedel

fuhr

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɹəʊv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: drove

Hérité de ancien anglais: drāf

Appartenant à écossais: drave

Appartenant à néerlandais: dreef

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: treip

Appartenant à suédois: drev

Appartenant à islandais: dreif

Hérité de moyen anglais: drave

In summary

From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

Phrases

The ambulance drove quickly to the hospital .

L'ambulance a conduit rapidement à l'hôpital.