dove
see also: Dove
Etymology 1

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe, from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ.

Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, Western Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, nds-de Duuv, nds-nl duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב, Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉.

Pronunciation Noun

dove

  1. (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  2. (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
    Synonyms: peace dove
    Antonyms: hawk
  3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Song of Solomon 2:14 ↗:
      O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
  4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
  5. (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
Synonyms Translations Translations Translations Etymology 2

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drivedrove and weavewove.

Pronunciation Verb
  1. (chiefly, North America and English dialect) Strong simple past 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.
  2. (non-standard) past participle of dive

Dove
Etymology
  • As an English surname, from the noun dove.
  • As a Scottish surname, calque of Scottish Gaelic (mac) Calmáin (“(son of the) dove”). Compare Coleman.
  • Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Duff.
  • As a north German surname, from the Low German - adjective doof; see deaf.
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. A river in England.
  2. An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri.
  3. A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.
  4. Surname.



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