DOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dove mean? 

• DOVE (noun)
  The noun DOVE has 5 senses:

1. any of numerous small pigeons

2. someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations

3. a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum

4. flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled

5. an emblem of peace

  Familiarity information: DOVE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous small pigeons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dove" is a kind of...):

pigeon (wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dove"):

turtledove (any of several Old World wild doves)

Australian turtledove; Stictopelia cuneata; turtledove (small Australian dove)

mourning dove; Zenaidura macroura (wild dove of the United States having a mournful call)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dove; peacenik

Hypernyms ("dove" is a kind of...):

disarmer; pacificist; pacifist (someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes)

Antonym:

hawk (an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Columba; Dove

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

dove; squab

Hypernyms ("dove" is a kind of...):

poultry (flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food)

Holonyms ("dove" is a part of...):

domestic pigeon (domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food)

Sense 5

Meaning:

An emblem of peace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dove" is a kind of...):

allegory; emblem (a visible symbol representing an abstract idea)

 Context examples 

At last she recollected that she had been travelling, and they talked of Matlock and Dove Dale with great perseverance.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But when they came to the hazel-tree the little dove sat there still, and sang.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I see her as a lovely woman with kind, dove’s eyes, somewhat short of stature it is true, but carrying herself very bravely.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But meanwhile fret not thyself, my heart's dove, for it is like that there may be no war waged, and we must await the news.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She doesn't know us, she doesn't even talk about the flocks of green doves, as she calls the vine leaves on the wall.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Amy and Louisa, return to your nests like a pair of doves, as you are.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I assure you that our most pan-Germanic Junker is a sucking dove in his feelings towards England as compared with a real bitter Irish-American.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And he was aware that Ruth looked, too, with quick eyes that were timid and mild as a dove's, but which saw, in a look that was a flutter on and past, the working-class girl in her cheap finery and under the strange hat that all working-class girls were wearing just then.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When the sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway opposite my window, the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if the dove from the ark had lighted there.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As it dove through the gap, Cassini came within about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) of Saturn's cloud tops (where the air pressure is 1 bar — comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level) and within about 200 miles (300 kilometers) of the innermost visible edge of the rings.

(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)