Drove vs Droves - What's the difference?
drove | droves |
A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
(usually, in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven
(drive).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
As nouns the difference between drove and droves
is that drove is a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures while droves is plural of lang=en.As a verb drove
is simple past of drive.drove
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) drove, drof, draf, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- 2009',
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