different between dove vs pigeons

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *d?fe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-Germanic *d?b? (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb?- (“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 ????? (toyb), Gothic *???????????????? (*dub?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?v/
• Rhymes: -?v

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.

   Coordinate term: 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.

Synonyms

• (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• dived

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?v, IPA^(key): /d??v/
• (US) enPR: d?v, IPA^(key): /do?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Verb

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

• See dive for dived vs. dove.

References

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

Anagrams

• devo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do?.v?/
• Hyphenation: do?ve

Etymology 1

From doof

Noun

dove m or f (plural doven)

1. A deaf person.

Derived terms

• doventaal
• doventolk

Adjective

dove

1. Inflected form of doof

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dove

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doven

Anagrams

• voed

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek ???? (dokh?), from Proto-Indo-European *do?-éh?. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.

Noun

dove f (plural dovis)

1. stave

Italian

Alternative forms

• dov' (acopic, before a vowel or 'h')

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do.ve/
• Hyphenation: dó?ve

Conjunction

dove

1. where

Derived terms

• laddove

Related terms

• ove

Adverb

dove

1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts

Anagrams

• devo, vedo

Middle English

Noun

dove

1. Alternative form of douve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• dovent

Adjective

dove

1. neuter singular of doven

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?d??ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?d??ns/
• Hyphenation: pi?geons
• Homophone: pidgins

Noun

pigeons

1. plural of pigeon

Verb

pigeons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pigeon

Anagrams

• pingoes

French

Verb

pigeons

1. first-person plural present indicative of piger
2. first-person plural imperative of piger

Anagrams

• poignes