The meaning of the word dove

English[edit]

rock dove (Columba livia)

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, be obscure”).

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).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /dʌv/
  • Rhymes: -ʌv

Noun[edit]

dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
    Synonym: peace dove
    Antonym: hawk
  3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
    • 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[edit]
  • (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon
Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms

  • African mourning dove (Streptopelia decipiens)
  • Adamawa turtle dove (Streptopelia hypopyrrha)
  • American ground dove (Claravinae spp.)
  • American mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
  • atoll fruit dove (Ptilinopus coralensis)
  • Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria)
  • beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
  • Carolina turtle dove (Zenaida macroura)
  • carunculated fruit dove (Ptilinopus granulifrons)
  • common ground dove (Columbina passerina)
  • crimson-capped fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
  • crimson-crowned fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
  • cushat dove, cushat-dove
  • diamond dove (Geopelia cuneata)
  • dovecot, dovecote
  • Dove Creek
  • dove gray, dove grey
  • dove of peace
  • dove plant (Peristeria elata)
  • dove tree (Davidia involucrata)
  • dove-eyed
  • dovish
  • dwarf fruit dove (Ptilinopus nainus)
  • eared dove (Zenaida auriculata)
  • Fischer’s fruit dove (Ptilinopus fischeri)
  • Fleet Street dove
  • fruit dove, fruit-dove (Ptilinopus)
  • Galapagos dove (Zenaida galapagoensis)
  • grey-headed fruit dove (Ptilinopus hyogastrus)
  • ground dove (Claravinae spp., Phabini spp.)
  • Indo-Pacific ground dove (Phabini spp.)
  • Jambu fruit dove (Ptilinopus jambu)
  • magnificent fruit dove (Ptilinopus magnificus)
  • moaning dove (Columbina passerina)
  • mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
  • mourning collared dove (Streptopelia decipiens)
  • Pacific dove (Zenaida meloda)
  • rain dove (Zenaida macroura)
  • release dove
  • ring dove (Streptopelia risoria)
  • ringneck dove (Streptopelia risoria)
  • rock dove (Columba livia)
  • Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni)
  • soiled dove
  • stock dove (Columba oenas)
  • sucking-dove
  • tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria)
  • tobacco dove (Columbina passerina)
  • turtledove, turtle-dove, turtle dove
  • western turtle dove (Zenaida macroura)
  • West Peruvian dove (Zenaida meloda)
  • white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica)
  • wompoo fruit dove (Ptilinopus magnificus)
  • zebra dove (Geopelia striata)
  • Zenaida dove (Zenaida spp, esp. Zenaida aurita)
  • bar-shouldered dove
  • collared dove
  • cuckoo dove, cuckoo-dove
  • Eurasian collared dove
  • European turtle dove
  • golden fruit dove
  • Inca dove
  • laughing dove
  • oriental turtle dove
  • peaceful dove
  • Philippine cuckoo-dove
  • quail dove, quail-dove
  • red turtle dove
  • ringed dove
  • rose-crowned fruit-dove
  • ruddy ground dove
  • Samoan dove
  • scaled dove
  • sea dove
  • tree-dove
Descendants[edit]
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)
Translations[edit]

bird of the family Columbidae — See also translations at pigeon

  • Acehnese: mirahpati
  • Acholi: akuri
  • Aklanon: punay
  • Albanian: pëllumb (sq) m
  • Amharic: ርግብ (rəgb), እርግብ (ʾərgəb)
  • Arabic: يَمَام‎ (ar) m (yamām), حَمَام‎ (ar) m (ḥamām)
    Egyptian Arabic: يمامة‎ f (yamāma)
    Hijazi Arabic: يَمامة‎ f (yamāma)
    Moroccan Arabic: حمام‎ m (ḥmām), يمام‎ m (ymām)
  • Aramaic:
    Hebrew: יונא‎ c (yawnā’)
    Syriac: ܝܘܢܐ‎ c (yawnā’)
  • Armenian: աղավնի (hy) (ałavni)
  • Aromanian: pãrumbu m, purumbu m, culumbu m
  • Assamese: কুপতি (kupoti) (turtle-dove), কপৌ (kopou) (turtle-dove), পাৰ (parô) (pigeon)
  • Asturian: palomba f
  • Avar: микки (mikki)
  • Azerbaijani: göyərçin (az)
  • Bashkir: күгәрсен (kügärsen)
  • Basque: urzo (eu)
  • Bau Bidayuh: asang
  • Belarusian: го́луб (be) m (hólub)
  • Bengali: ঘুঘু (bn) (ghughu)
  • Bulgarian: гъ́лъб (bg) m (gǎ́lǎb)
  • Catalan: colom (ca) m
  • Cebuano: pati
  • Central Melanau: aseang
  • Chamicuro: pujtuku
  • Cherokee: ᏬᏱ (woyi)
  • Chichewa: njiwa
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 鴿子／鸽子 (zh) (gēzi)
  • Cornish: kolom f
  • Cree: omîmîw NA, mîmêw NA
  • Czech: holub (cs) m, hrdlička (cs) f
  • Danish: due (da) c
  • Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
  • Dutch: duif (nl) f or m
  • Esperanto: kolombo
  • Estonian: tuvi (et)
  • Faroese: dúgva f, dúva f
  • Fijian: ruve
  • Finnish: kyyhky (fi), kyyhkynen (fi), pulu (fi)
  • French: colombe (fr) f, pigeon (fr) m
  • Galician: pombo (gl) m, pomba (gl) f, rula f
  • Ge’ez: ርግብ m or f (rəgb)
  • Georgian: მტრედი (ka) (mṭredi)
  • German: Taube (de) f
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌺𐍃 f (ahaks)
  • Greek: περιστέρι (el) n (peristéri), περιστέρα (el) f (peristéra)
    Ancient: περιστερά f (peristerá)
  • Guaraní: pykasu, jeruti
  • Hebrew: יוֹנָה‎ (he) f (yoná)
  • Hindi: कपोत (hi) m (kapot), कबूतर (hi) m (kabūtar)
  • Hungarian: galamb (hu)
  • Iban: achang
  • Icelandic: dúfa (is) f
  • Ido: kolombo (io)
  • Igbo: ńdò, àkwụ̀kwụ̀ (ig)
  • Indonesian: merpati (id), burung merpati (id), dara (id), burung dara (id), ketitiran (id)
  • Ingrian: kyyhkyläin, tuuvi, golubi
  • Interlingua: columba, pipion
  • Irish: colm m, fearán m
  • Italian: colomba (it) f, piccione (it) m
  • Japanese: 鳩 (ja) (はと, hato)
  • Javanese: dara
  • Khakas: худай хус (xuday xus)
  • Khowar: ‪کَلکور‎ (kalkóor)
  • Korean: 비둘기 (ko) (bidulgi)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: کۆتر‎ (ckb) (kotir)
  • Lao: ນົກເຂົາ (nok khao)
  • Latgalian: bolūds
  • Latin: columba f, columbus m, turtur m
  • Latvian: balodis m, dūja f
  • Laz: ტოროჯი (ťoroci)
  • Ligurian: cömbo, cónbo, cónba f
  • Lithuanian: balandis (lt) m, karvelis (lt) m
  • Low German:
    German Low German: Duuv (nds) f
  • Luxembourgish: Dauf f
  • Lü: ᦷᦓᧅᦔᧁᧉ (nokṗaw²)
  • Macedonian: гу́лаб m (gúlab)
  • Malay: merpati (ms)
  • Manx: calmane m
  • Middle English: douve, culver
  • Mingrelian: ტორონჯი (ṭoronǯi)
  • Mizo: ṭhuro, pàrvâ
  • Maori: kukupa
  • Mwani: njiwa
  • Norman: colombe f, coucouroux f
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: due (no) f or m
    Nynorsk: due f, dua f (superseded)
  • Occitan: colomb (oc) m
  • Ojibwe: omiimii
  • Old English: culfre f, *dūfe f
  • Old Norse: dúfa f
  • Ottoman Turkish: گوگرجین‎ (güğercin, güvercin)
  • Persian: فاخته‎ (fa) (fâxta), کبوتر‎ (fa) (kabutar)
  • Plautdietsch: Duw f
  • Polish: gołąb (pl) m
  • Portuguese: pombo (pt) m, pomba (pt) f
  • Quechua: urpi (qu), urpai
  • Romanian: porumbel (ro) m
  • Romansch: columba f
  • Russian: го́лубь (ru) m (gólubʹ), голу́бка (ru) f (golúbka), (turtledove or collared dove) го́рлица (ru) f (górlica)
  • Sangisari: کوتر (kutar)
  • Samoan: lupe (sm)
  • Sanskrit: कपोत (sa) m (kapota)
  • Scots: doo
  • Scottish Gaelic: calman m, smùdan m
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: го̏лӯб m, голу̀бица f
    Roman: gȍlūb (sh) m, golùbica (sh) f
  • Shan: ၼူၵ်ႉတူႈ (shn) (nṵ̂uk tūu)
  • Sicilian: palumma (scn) f, culumma (scn) f
  • Slovak: holub (sk) m
  • Slovene: golob (sl) m, golobica (sl) f
  • Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: gołub m
  • Spanish: paloma (es) f, pichón (es) m (young), pichona (es) f (young)
  • Swahili: njiwa (sw) class 9/10
  • Swedish: duva (sv) c
  • Tagalog: kalapati
  • Tai Dam: ꪶꪙꪀꪹꪎꪱ (ꞌnộc sau)
  • Tamil: புறா (ta) (puṟā)
  • Telugu: పావురం (te) (pāvuraṁ), కపోతం (te) (kapōtaṁ)
  • Thai: นกเขา (th) (nok khao)
  • Tibetan: འང་གུ (‘ang gu)
  • Tigre: እርግብ (ʾərgəb)
  • Tigrinya: ርግቢ (rəgbi)
  • Tupinambá: pykasu
  • Turkish: güvercin (tr), kumru (tr) (collared dove or laughing dove)
  • Ukrainian: го́луб m (hólub)
  • Uyghur: كەپتەر‎ (ug) (kepter)
  • Vietnamese: bồ câu (vi)
  • Vilamovian: taoj
  • Volapük: pijun (vo)
  • Votic: guľu
  • Walloon: colon (wa) m, pidjon (wa) m
  • Welsh: colomen f, colomennod f pl
  • West Coast Bajau: asang
  • Yiddish: טויב‎ f (toyb)
  • Yámana: olamana
  • Zazaki: bewran

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Alternative forms[edit]

  • dived

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /dəʊv/
  • (US) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /doʊv/
  • Rhymes: -əʊv

Verb[edit]

dove

  1. (chiefly Canada, US and England 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
      When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
  2. (nonstandard) past participle of dive
Usage notes[edit]
  • See dive for dived vs. dove.

References[edit]

  • “dove” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “dive, v.”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams[edit]

  • devo

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdoː.və/
  • Hyphenation: do‧ve

Etymology 1[edit]

From doof.

Noun[edit]

dove m or f (plural doven)

  1. A deaf person.
Derived terms[edit]
  • doventaal
  • doventolk

Adjective[edit]

dove

  1. Inflected form of doof

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

dove

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doven

Anagrams[edit]

  • voed

Friulian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.

Noun[edit]

dove f (plural dovis)

  1. stave

Italian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • dov’ (acopic, before a vowel or ‘h’)

Etymology[edit]

From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdo.ve/°, (traditional) /ˈdo.ve/*
  • Rhymes: -ove
  • Hyphenation: dó‧ve

Conjunction[edit]

dove

  1. where
    Lo troverai dove l’hai lasciato. ― You’ll find it where you left it.

Derived terms[edit]

  • laddove

[edit]

  • ove

Adverb[edit]

dove

  1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts
    Dove vai? ― Where are you going?
    Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?

Anagrams[edit]

  • devo, vedo

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

dove

  1. Alternative form of douve

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • dovent

Adjective[edit]

dove

  1. neuter singular of doven
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1

: any of numerous pigeons

especially

: a small wild pigeon

2

: a gentle woman or child

3

: one who takes a conciliatory attitude and advocates negotiations and compromise

especially

: an opponent of war compare hawk entry 1

Synonyms

Example Sentences

Noun



The President sided with the doves and worked to avoid war.



the doves were in favor of using the surplus to improve the nation’s schools and not its weapons systems

Recent Examples on the Web



And on the day’s final run-through, a crew member hidden behind the tomb released 20 white doves as Randall reached toward the heavens.


—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2023




As the story goes, after Lombardian troops declared victory over the Holy Roman Empire’s army, two doves appeared on the battlefield — the spongy cake, made to resemble a flying bird, was supposedly made to mark the occasion.


—Malaika Ng Julia Berick Kate Guadagnino Jameson Montgomery Jinnie Lee Monica Mendal, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023




Of course, the word for dove in French is colombe so that’s confusing.


—Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2023




Then the school choir performed a song dedicated to the victims, white doves were released and students visited booths to read brief biographies of the victims, write postcards to Parkland residents or receive first-aid instruction.


—Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023




That hole is also dove-shaped — Brainard was one of the least hawkish policymakers at the Fed.


—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023




On March 22, the FOMC attempted to please hawks and doves, hiking the fed funds rate to combat inflation but only by a quarter point, citing a tightening of credit conditions due to the onset of the crisis.


—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023




Harry Styles shared a black-and-white photo of McVie to his Instagram stories along with an emoji of a white dove and a black heart.


—Thania Garcia, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022




After some research, Ms. Mayron learned that Gertie is a type of dove bred to be released at weddings or funerals.


—Alexandra Genova, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2022


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Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English duve, douve, dowe, probably going back to Old English *dūfe and a shortened form *dufe, going back to Germanic *dūƀōn- (whence also Old Frisian dūwe «dove,» Old Saxon dūƀa, Middle Dutch duve, Old High German tūba, Old Icelandic dúfa, Gothic -dubo, in hraiwadubo «turtledove»), of uncertain origin

Note:
The modern English outcome with [ʌ] presupposes shortening of (or variation with) a Middle English form with ọ̄, itself presupposing Old English ŭ affected by Middle English open-syllable lengthening. Middle English spellings such as douve, however, would seem to require an Old English long vowel, as do the Germanic cognates. These issues were pointed out by E. J. Dobson (English Pronunciation, 1500-1700, 2. edition, Oxford, 1968, p. 514), who follows the Oxford English Dictionary‘s suggestion that the noun is related to Old English dūfan «to dive, plunge (into a liquid)» (see dive entry 1) and that the forms with long and short u reflect different ablaut grades of dūfan (a class II strong verb). Essentially the same solution, without the discussion of the English details, is proposed by G. Kroonen (Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Brill, 2013). The difficulty with this hypothesis is that the noun in Germanic languages uniformly means «dove, pigeon,» not an aquatic bird. Another proposal associates *dūƀōn- with the Celtic etymon of Old Irish dub «dark, black,» Old Welsh dub, Welsh du, on the assumption that a dove is «the dark bird.» But such a source, usually derived, together with Germanic *dauƀa- «deaf, senseless» (see deaf) and Greek typhlós «blind, dark,» from Indo-European *dhubh-, *dheu̯bh-, could not regularly produce a long u. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the etymological successor to the Oxford English Dictionary, abandons the dive connection and says simply «presumed to be imitative of the bird’s note.»

First Known Use

Noun

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler

The first known use of dove was
in the 13th century

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Table of Contents

  1. What is the meaning of word dove?
  2. What is the full meaning of dove?
  3. Is dove English?
  4. What is the meaning of do ve?
  5. What is dove known for?
  6. How do you use dove in a sentence?
  7. What is the other examples of dove?
  8. What is the meaning of the dove bird?
  9. Why are doves a symbol of Love and peace?
  10. What does the White Dove mean in the Bible?
  11. What does it mean to have a dove tattoo?

(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : any of numerous pigeons especially : a small wild pigeon. 2 : a gentle woman or child. 3 : one who takes a conciliatory attitude and advocates negotiations and compromise especially : an opponent of war — compare hawk entry 1.

What is the full meaning of dove?

DOVE. Dignity Opportunity Voice and Empowerment.

Is dove English?

Both verb inflections are used in American and British English; however, dove is an Americanism, and thus tends to be used more in American English.

What is the meaning of do ve?

dove. noun [ C ] us. /dʌv/ a bird with short legs, a large body, and a small head, often used as a symbol of peace.

What is dove known for?

Dove started its life in 1957 in the US, with the revolutionary new beauty cleansing Bar. Today Dove offers a range of products: body washes, hand and body lotions, facial cleansers, deodorants, shampoos, conditioners and hair styling products, all developed on the universal premise of real care.

How do you use dove in a sentence?

an emblem of peace.

  1. He who makes himself a dove is eaten by the hawk.
  2. She dove straight into the pool.
  3. The dove is an emblem of peace.
  4. The dove represents peace.
  5. The dove is a symbol of peace.
  6. The dove is a universal symbol of peace.
  7. The dove is symbolic of peace.
  8. The boxer dove in the fifth.

What is the other examples of dove?

The definition of a dove is a small white pigeon used as a symbol for peace, or a person who wants peace. An example of a dove is a little white bird with a round body, small head and short legs that makes cooing sounds.

What is the meaning of the dove bird?

Dove Symbolism ~&~ Meaning. a global symbol of peace, harmony & beauty. Dove Symbolism. The delicate and beautiful little dove bird is an enduring and global symbol of peace, harmony, beauty and love.

Why are doves a symbol of Love and peace?

Doves, which are in fact domesticated rock pigeons, are a well known Christian symbol of love and peace. The story of Noah’s Ark is one of the best examples of how the dove symbol was integrated in Christian history as a symbol of peace.

What does the White Dove mean in the Bible?

Many view the white dove as a symbol of both the Holy Spirit and purity. We see this is also connected to the symbolic meaning of white. The same goes for holiness. The Holy Spirit is holy therefore we see that in the symbol of a dove.

What does it mean to have a dove tattoo?

The dove tattoo symbolizes a desire or commitment to peace that comes from bringing a new reality into your life and into the world through your own heart. The Dove tattoo is a symbol of creating a new reality of peace, beauty, hope and harmony. The Dove is a wonderful symbol…

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Other forms: doves

A plump white or gray bird that makes a cooing sound is a dove. In both religious and secular contexts, doves are often used to symbolize peace.

Doves and pigeons are closely related, and the two names are often used interchangeably. These round, short-necked birds live almost everywhere on the earth, with the exception of Antarctica, the highest elevations of the Arctic, and the Sahara Desert. In politics, a person whose priority is advocating for peaceful solutions is often referred to as a dove.

Definitions of dove

  1. noun

    any of numerous small pigeons

  2. noun

    flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled

  3. noun

    someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations

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Meaning dove

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past tense of dive (q.v.).

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dove

probably from Old English dufe- (found only in compounds), from Proto-Germanic *dubon (source also of Old Saxon duba, Old Norse dufa, Swedish duva, Middle Dutch duve, Dutch duif, Old High German tuba, [..]

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Dove [S]In their wild state doves generally build their nests in the clefts of rocks, but when domesticated «dove-cots» are prepared for them (Cant 2:14 ; Jeremiah 48:28 ; Isaiah 60:8 ). The [..]

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a pretty bird, rather like a pigeon

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A person who is opposed to the Vietnam War. (Compare to "hawk.")

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In their wild state doves generally build their nests in the clefts of rocks, but when domesticated «dove-cots» are prepared for them (Cant. 2:14; Jer. 48:28; Isa. 60:8). The dove was placed [..]

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The first menton of this bird occurs in Gen. 8. The dove’s rapidity of flight is alluded to in (Psalms 55:6) the beauty of its plumage in (Psalms 68:13) its dwelling int he rocks and valleys in ( [..]

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One of the two ships that brought Catholic and Protestant English settlers to the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in 1634. The other ship was named the Ark. The settlers founded St. Mary’s City. [..]

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dovish-refers to data or a policy view that suggests easier monetary policy or lower interest rates. The opposite of hawkish.

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(n) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall(n) a headlong plunge into water(n) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft(v) drop steeply(v) plunge into water(v) swim under water(n) any of n [..]

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The dove, in Christian art, symbolises the Holy Ghost. In church windows the seven rays proceeding from the dove signify the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost. It also symbolises the human soul, and as su [..]

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(Thailand) Department of Vocational Education.

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Family in the order Columbiformes, comprised of pigeons or doves. They are Birds with short Legs, stout bodies, small heads, and slender bills. Some sources call the smaller species doves and the larg [..]

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In the submarine service the past tense of the verb dive.

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An important American modernist and one of the first artists in the United States to create entirely non-representational works. Among Dove’s clear influences are the French avant-garde painters Hen [..]

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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.

(politics) A person favouring conci [..]

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constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis

river in England, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire

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From the English word for the variety of bird, seen as a symbol of peace.

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