Definitions for Dove

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Dove dove

Spelling: [duhv]

IPA: /dʌv/

Dove is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Dove (deov).

Definitions for Dove

noun

1. any bird of the family Columbidae, especially the smaller species with pointed tails. Compare pigeon1 (def 1).
2. a pure white member of this species, used as a symbol of innocence, gentleness, tenderness, and peace.
3. (initial capital letter) a symbol for the Holy Ghost.
4. an innocent, gentle, or tender person.
5. Also called peace dove. a person, especially one in public office, who advocates peace or a conciliatory national attitude. Compare hawk1 (def 4).
6. dove color.
7. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Columba.
8. Arthur, 1880–1946, U.S. painter.
9. Rita, born 1952, U.S. poet and educator: U.S. poet laureate 1993.
10. an act or instance of diving.
11. a jump or plunge into water, especially in a prescribed way from a diving board.
12. the vertical or nearly vertical descent of an airplane at a speed surpassing the possible speed of the same plane in level flight.
13. a submerging, as of a submarine or skindiver.
14. a dash, plunge, or lunge, as if throwing oneself at or into something:
15. a sudden or sharp decline, as in stock prices.
16. Informal. a dingy or disreputable bar or nightclub.
17. Boxing. a false show of being knocked out, usually in a bout whose result has been prearranged:

verb

1. a simple past tense of dive.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to plunge, submerge, or descend.
2. to insert quickly; plunge:

verb (used without object)

1. to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
2. to go below the surface of the water, as a submarine.
3. to plunge, fall, or descend through the air, into the earth, etc.:
4. Aeronautics. (of an airplane) to descend rapidly.
5. to penetrate suddenly into something, as with the hand:
6. to dart:
7. to enter deeply or plunge into a subject, activity, etc.

Origin of Dove

1150-1200; Middle English; Old English dūfe- (in dūfedoppa dip-diver); cognate with Dutch duif, German Taube, Old Norse dūfa, Gothic dūbo, originally a diver

Examples for Dove

The same that dove with the young woman under the steamboat paddles.

Beginning in 1988, he also dove into making art using a fax machine.

One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove's plumage.

You'd been drunk for hours, but you dove off a double-decker lake boat and came up gracefully for air.

De Merode slipped from his seat and dove toward the roadside and into the forest.

Again she dove and with strong strokes headed for the shore.

He caught both the ball and a bleacher to the face as he dove into the stands.

I begin to think you have a little of the wisdom of the dove too.

He was not quarrelsome, though, like the sparrow; but peaceful, like the dove.

Improper burial, dove says, could mean that harmful bacteria are leeching into the waterways.