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Definition of Dove

Dove

of Dive

A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous.

A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

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Dove Quotations

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
Steven Tyler

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Tommy Lasorda

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
Tommy Lasorda

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.
Robert Duvall

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Juvenal

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.
Robert Creeley

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.
Brooke Burns

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.
Juice Newton

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
Brian P. Cleary

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
James Montgomery

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Dove Translations

dove in Danish is due
dove in Dutch is duif, tamme duif
dove in Finnish is kyyhkynen
dove in French is colombe, pigeon
dove in German is Taube
dove in Italian is piccione
dove in Norwegian is due
dove in Portuguese is pombo, pomba
dove in Swedish is duva

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