dove

IPA: dˈʌv

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

Examples of "dove" in Sentences

Now comes the new prez as a hawk in dove's clothing.
Then, you can read me in dove words, and spell me to myself.
Snipe give bonus lessons in dove and waterfowl shooting, too.
So in both cases, the liberal dove is calling for negotiation.
Do chunks of elemental lead lying around on the ground get absorbed into the bloodstream of common animals in dove fields?
We invented the omission of punctuation and capital letters, stanzas in the shape of a dove from the libraries of Alexandria.
The image of a dove is also associated with Anne in her poem "Self-Communion" and with Helen Huntingdon, the heroine of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Fitzgerald finished with eight catches for 166 yards and a scintillating 29-yard catch-and-run TD on which he dove from the 3-yard line and stretched the football inside the pylon before falling out of bounds.