Dove (disambiguation)
A dove is a type of bird, also called a pigeon.
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Dove may also refer to:
Birds
- In popular usage, often refers to small columbids that are used as symbols of peace, white or gray in color
- Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria), a domestic species that is typically gray in colour, but often bred to be white
- Small white-feathered domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica), which are used as release doves
People
- Dove (given name), given name in the English language
- Dove (surname), surname in the English language
Places
Extraterrestrial
- Dove (crater), on the Moon
- Dove or Columba (constellation)
Terrestrial
- Dove, Missouri, United States
- Dove Lake (Tasmania), Australia
- River Dove, Barnsley, England
- River Dove, Derbyshire, England
- River Dove, North Yorkshire, England
- River Dove, Suffolk, England
- The Dove (glacier), Colorado, United States
- The Dove, Hammersmith, a public house in London, England
- Dove Cottage, writer's home museum of William Wordsworth in Grasmere, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Hawk and Dove, a DC Comics superhero team
- "Little Dove", an alias for the character Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones
Groups
- Dove (band), an Australian soft rock band (1973–1978)
- Doves (band), an English band
Albums
- Dove (Belly album), an album by American alternative rock band Belly
- Dove (Floor album), an album by American sludge metal band Floor
Songs
- "Dove" (song), a song by Italian musician Mooney
- "Dove", a song by Tyrannosaurus Rex from their 1970 album A Beard of Stars
Other uses in music
- Dove, an alias of American rapper David Jude Jolicoeur
- Dove (the Band of Love), Devo's fake opening act
- GMA Dove Awards, an American musical award
- Gibson Dove, a type of guitar
Other uses in media
- "Doves", a Series D episode of the television series QI (2006)
Brands and enterprises
- Dove (chocolate brand), a Mars brand of chocolate named after the ice cream
- Dove (toiletries), an unrelated Unilever brand of soap and other personal care products
Military
- HMS Dove (1898), a British destroyer
- Operation Dove (Ireland), an aborted 1940 German World War II mission
- Operation Dove, a 1944 Allied World War II assault in southern France
Science and technology
- Dove (satellite), a constellation of small Earth-imaging satellites operated by Planet Labs
- Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE), a tunneling and virtualization technology for computer networks
- Dove Marine Laboratory
- Dove tree
- Dove Medical Press
Vehicles
- Dove (ship), 17th-century English trading ship re-created as the Maryland Dove
- Dove (steamboat)
- de Havilland Dove, a post–World War II short-haul airliner
Other uses
- DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events), a project of the General Register Office for England and Wales to digitise birth, marriage, and death records
- Dove Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon
- Dove Publications, an American publishing house headquartered in Mineola, New York
- Dove, slang for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- Basel Dove, an 1845 Swiss postage stamp
- Monetary hawk and dove, someone who favors low unemployment in monetary policy
- War dove, a person favoring peace in a debate over whether to go to war
- Doves (Gibraltar) or palomos, a group of Gibraltarians that advocated, in the 1960s, for a settlement with Spain
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