DOVE meaning: Bird symbolizing peace and purity

We found 51 dictionaries that define the word dove:

General (32 matching dictionaries)

dove: Merriam-Webster.com
Dove, dove, dove: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Dove, dove, dove: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dove, the Dove: Collins English Dictionary
Dove, dove: Vocabulary.com
Dove, dove: Wordnik
dove: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Dove, dove: Wiktionary
dove: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
dove: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
dove: Infoplease Dictionary
dove: Dictionary.com
dove: Online Etymology Dictionary
dove: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Dove: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
dove: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
dove: Rhymezone
dove, dove: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
dove: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DOVE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
Dove: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
dove: Free Dictionary
dove: Mnemonic Dictionary
Dove, dove: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
Dove: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Dove: Investopedia
Dove: Legal dictionary
Dove: bizterms.net

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Dove (bird), Dove (zoology), dove: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
dove: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

DOVE: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
dove: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)

Dove: Easton Bible
Dove: Catholic Encyclopedia
Dove: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

dove: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Dove: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
dove, the dove: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
▸ noun:  (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
▸ noun:  A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
▸ noun:  A river in England, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
▸ noun:  A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”). [(slang) A tablet of the drug ecstasy.]

Opposite:

hawk

Types:

pigeon, pigeon-dove, ring-necked dove, collared dove, rock dove, peace dove, emerald dove, more...

Phrases:

mourning dove, white dove, turtle dove, Rita Dove, rock dove, more...

Adjectives:

white, little, turtle, gentle, wild, winged, poor, young, heavenly, beautiful, holy

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