drove

CEFRA2

/dɹəʊv/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    Past tense of drive; controlled and moved a vehicle.

  2. 02

    noun

    A large group of animals moving together.

Examples

  • Paula got into the car and drove off.

  • We turned left at the corner and drove north.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /dɹoʊv/

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verb

Extra meanings

  1. A group of hares.

  2. A large number of people on the move.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

More examples

In context

  • Hunger drove him to steal.

  • He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.

  • He was droving his mob of fats to Derby, to ship by the southern boat for Fremantle.

Synonyms

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A large blank of cattle moved slowly across the open field.

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Origin

verb

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.