dove

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

• IPA^(key): /dʌv/
• Rhymes: -ʌv

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dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)

1. 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. (politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
3. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
   • Cant. ii. 14

     O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.

4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.

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

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

• dived

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA^(key): /dəʊv/
• (US) enPR: dōv, IPA^(key): /doʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

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dove

1. (chiefly Canada, US and English dialectal) 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

• See dive for dived vs. dove.

• “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]

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dove m or f (plural doven)

1. A deaf person.

dove

1. Inflected form of doof

dove

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doven

• voed

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.

dove f (plural dovis)

1. stave

From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdove/, [ˈd̪oː.ve]

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• Hyphenation: dó‧ve

dove

1. where

   Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. ― You'll find it where you left it.

• laddove

• ove

dove

1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts

   Dove vai? ― Where are you going?

   Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?

• devo, vedo

dove

1. Alternative form of douve

• dovent

dove

1. neuter singular of doven