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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States general who served as military director of the atomic bomb project (1896-1970)
Synonyms:
Groves; Leslie Richard Groves
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Context examples:
A small house in their own neighbourhood, where they might still have Lady Russell's society, still be near Mary, and still have the pleasure of sometimes seeing the lawns and groves of Kellynch, was the object of her ambition.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
