Dove

Quick meaning: Dove is a noun meaning (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

Meaning

(countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
2. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
3. (nonstandard) past participle of dive
4. (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.
5. (slang, countable) Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
6. (chiefly Canada, US; dialectal in the UK) simple past of dive

Example Sentences

O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.

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

On the left are the activist Vietniks, eager to protest the war; next are the doves, who oppose the U.S. role but shun demonstrations; and in the middle are the apathetics, who simply are not concerned enough to think through their own stand.

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.

Word Forms

• doves

Synonyms for dove

Depending on context, synonyms include culver, squab, peacenik.

Antonyms for dove

Common opposites include hawk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include squab, peacenik, pigeon, cushat, bird, turtle.

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