dove
nounEtymology
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).
Definitions
A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored
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.
- Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations.
A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
- O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
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A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
simple past of dive
past participle of dive
A river in England, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
A river in Suffolk, England, a tributary of the Waveney.
An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
Asian emerald dove, Barbary dove, bar-shouldered dove, beautiful fruit dove, blue ground dove, collared dove, cuckoo dove, cuckoo-dove, cushat dove, cushat-dove, dead dove, diamond dove, dovecot, dovecote, Dove Creek, dove-eyed, dove gray, dove grey, dovehouse, dovekie, dovelet, dovelike, doveling, dovely, dove of peace, dove orchid, dove plant, doveplum, dove shell, doveship, dovetail, dove tree, dove weed, dovish, eared dove, Fleet Street dove, fruit dove, fruit-dove, Galapagos dove, ground dove · +44 more
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A definitional loop anchored at dove. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at dove. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at dove
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA