EGAVE

dove

About 3.31 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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 three hundred species of the family Columbidae.
  2. noun A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
  3. noun A term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
  4. noun A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
  5. noun Ellipsis of love dove (“a tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
  6. verb simple past of dive
  7. verb past participle of dive

Similar words

squab peacenik pigeon cushat bird turtle cots cooing sucker slipped

Often followed by

and into in of is for to was with

Word family

dive doves dovish dovishness dovishnesses

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