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Dove

//dʌv// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in England, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. uncountable
  2. 2
    A river in Suffolk, England, a tributary of the Waveney. uncountable
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States. uncountable
  4. 4
    A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis. uncountable
  5. 5
    A surname. uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable

    "Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations."

  2. 2
    any of numerous small pigeons wordnet
  3. 3
    A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. countable
  4. 4
    an emblem of peace wordnet
  5. 5
    Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. countable

    "O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice."

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  1. 6
    flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled wordnet
  2. 7
    A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations wordnet
  4. 9
    Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of dive Canada, US, dialectal, form-of, past

    "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 When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude."

  2. 2
    past participle of dive form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *dūbaną? Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ Proto-West Germanic *dūbā Old English *dūfe Middle English douve English dove Inherited from Middle English douve, dove, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).

Etymology 2

A modern formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

Etymology 3

* 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 (“deaf”); see deaf.

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