GROVES

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• GROVES (noun)
  The noun GROVES has 1 sense:

1. United States general who served as military director of the atomic bomb project (1896-1970)

  Familiarity information: GROVES used as a noun is very rare.

• GROVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States general who served as military director of the atomic bomb project (1896-1970)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Groves; Leslie Richard Groves

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

 Context examples 

Now the richer fields of the North have absorbed the trade, and nothing save these ravaged groves and great scars in the earth show the work of the past.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His chest was like a barrel, and his forearms were the most powerful that I have ever seen, with deep groves between the smooth-swelling muscles like a piece of water-worn rock.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was the same with the groves of deserted bedsteads I peeped at, on my way to, and when I was in, my own bed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A beloved home made over to others; all the precious rooms and furniture, groves, and prospects, beginning to own other eyes and other limbs!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was a fine autumn morning; the early sun shone serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields; advancing on to the lawn, I looked up and surveyed the front of the mansion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Back among the groves he could see the high gable ends and thatched roofs of the franklins' houses, on whose fields these men found employment, or more often a thick dark column of smoke marked their position and hinted at the coarse plenty within.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With his guidance he passed the fringe of Bolderwood Walk, famous for old ash and yew, through Mark Ash with its giant beech-trees, and on through the Knightwood groves, where the giant oak was already a great tree, but only one of many comely brothers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)