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.
• (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.]