Usually means: Large groups moving or gathering.
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  1. droves: Merriam-Webster
  2. droves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. droves: Vocabulary.com
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  5. droves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. droves: Wiktionary
  7. droves: Dictionary.com
  8. droves: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. droves: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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(Note: See drove as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (drove)

noun:  A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
noun:  (collective) A group of hares.
noun:  A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or coil be driven; a droveway.
noun:  A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
noun:  A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
noun:  The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
verb:  To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
verb:  (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
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