groove
/ɡɹuv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.74 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
noun
noun
A shaft or excavation.
Example Sentences
- "Through these distresses, the Odd Girl was cheerful and exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen “Eyes,” and was in hysterics."
- "The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove."
- "His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half."
- "Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat / And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet"
- "Let the music play / He won't get away / This groove he can't ignore"
- "Get into the groove / Boy, you've got to prove / Your love to me / Get up on your feet / Yeah, step to the beat"
Etymology
From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Cimbrian gruuba (“gorge, ravine”), Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Luxembourgish Grouf (“pit, mine”), Mòcheno gruab (“mine”), Icelandic gróf (“pit, hollow”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “foxhole”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Related to Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *gʰrebʰ-, grov, gróf, groeve, *grōbu, *grōbō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɹuv/
- British English: /ɡɹuːv/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.