dove

noun

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.

   “Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations.”

2. (countable)A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

   “On the left are the activist Vietniks, eager to protest the war; next are the doves, who oppose the U.S. role but shun demonstrations; and in the middle are the apathetics, who simply are not concerned enough to think through their own stand.”

3. (countable)Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

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

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”).

verb

1. (Canada, US, dialectal, form-of, past)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

name

1. (uncountable)A river in England, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
2. (uncountable)A river in Suffolk, England, a tributary of the Waveney.
3. (uncountable)An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
4. (uncountable)A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.
5. (uncountable)A surname.