Pronunciation
- IPA: /dʌv/
dove
- (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
- (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
- cot en
- (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
- Bible, Cant. ii. 14
- O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
- Bible, Cant. ii. 14
- A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
- (pigeon) columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon
- French: colombe, pigeon
- German: Taube
- Italian: colomba, piccione
- Portuguese: pombo, pomba
- Russian: го́лубь
- Spanish: paloma, pichón (dove's chick)
- German: Täubchen
- (chiefly, North America and English dialect) Strong simple past tense of dive
- 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; ISBN 9780307394361
- When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
- 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; ISBN 9780307394361
- (non-standard) past participle of dive#English|dive
Dove
Pronunciation Proper noun
- constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis
- river in England, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire
- Surname
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