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/dʌv/ · noun
(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..
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.
O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
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.
Use dove when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dove means (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..
Common synonyms include culver, dove, peace dove, squab.
Possible antonyms include hawk, war hawk.
Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations.
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