dove

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noun

Plural noun:

doves

1.
(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.
Đồng nghĩa: culver, dove
2.
(countable)(countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
Đồng nghĩa: peace dove
3.
(countable)Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
4.
(countable, uncountable)A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5.
(abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, slang)Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

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verb

1.
(Canada, US, dialectal, form of, past)(chiefly Canada, US; dialectal in the UK) simple past 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.
(form of, nonstandard, participle, past)past participle of dive

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From Middle English douve, dove, duve, from Old English *dūfe (dove, pigeon), from *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (dove, pigeon).