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Definition dove

Etymology 1

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *d?fe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-Germanic *d?b? (“dove”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb?- (“to whisk, smoke, be obscure”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow (“dove”), Saterland Frisian Saterland Frisian Duuwe (“dove”), West Frisian do (“dove”), Dutch duif (“dove, pigeon”), Low German Duuv (“dove, pigeon”), German Taube (“dove, pigeon”), Danish due (“dove”), Swedish duva (“dove”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove”), Gothic ???? (dub?).

Noun

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 (as opposed to hawk).
3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.

Etymology 2

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

Verb

dove

1. (chiefly Canada, US and English dialectal) Strong simple past tense of dive
2. (nonstandard) past participle of dive

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