drove

1. 1.

   a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together

   Broaderanimal group
2. 2.

   a moving crowd

   Synonymshordeswarm

   Broadercrowd
3. 3.

   a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone

   Synonymsdrove chisel

   Broaderchisel

Other forms of drove

plural

droves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drove

What does drove mean?

drove means "a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drove?

drove has 1 syllable: drove. In IPA it is /ˈdɹoʊv/.

What is another word for drove?

Close synonyms include horde, swarm, drove chisel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drove a common word?

drove is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.