dove
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Is dove a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.Examples: "Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations."Synonyms: culver, dove, pibbin, pib, pidge, pigeon, pijoncountable
2. (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.Synonyms: peace doveAntonyms: hawkcountable
3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.Examples: "O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice."countable
4. (slang, countable) Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).abbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisslang
verb (English)
1. (chiefly Canada, US; dialectal in the UK) simple past of diveExamples: "2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude."CanadaUSdialectalform-ofpast
2. (nonstandard) past participle of diveform-ofnonstandardparticiplepast
Definition source: Wiktionary