doves
- 1Plural of dove.
A pair of doves nested in the eaves above the back porch.
Mourning doves call softly through the late summer evenings.
Note
The plural takes a plain -s, and only the noun can have it. It covers every noun meaning: birds of the pigeon family, people who favor negotiation over conflict, and, in slang, ecstasy tablets known as love doves. The look-alike dove meaning "dived," a North American dialect past tense of dive, never adds an -s, so doves is never a verb.
doves is a form of dove
dove, noun: A bird of the family Columbidae, especially one of the smaller, often white-colored kinds; the names dove and pigeon are applied to the family's more than 300 species largely interchangeably. Full entry
- Forms
- dovedoves plural
- Spelling
- dove → doves: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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