(countable) 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.

(chiefly Canada, US and England dialect) Strong simple past tense of dive / (nonstandard) past participle of dive

A river in England, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. / An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.

(rare) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dove; dovelike.

plural of dove

Turtur tympanistria, a pigeon found in parts of Africa.

Alternative spelling of turtle dove

The dove/pigeon species Columba livia.

Any of several (species of) birds, called by this traditional name, mainly in the genus Streptopelia, of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons, which also included the extinct passenger pigeon, dodo, and solitaire).

A domesticated dove with unclear taxonomic classification, often treated as its own species as Streptopelia risoria, sometimes as a subspecies of either Eurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto or African collared dove Streptopelia roseogrisea, and sometimes not as separate species at all, freely breeding with the above species.