Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A domestic pigeon (Streptopelia risoria) having black markings that form a half circle on the neck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ringed dove, wood-pigeon, or cushat, Columba palumbus, a common European bird, distinguished by this name from the stock-dove (C. œnas) and rock-dove (C. livia), the only other British members of this genus.
- noun A small dove, Turtur risorius, now known only in confinement, having the general plumage of a pale dull creamy color, with a black half-ring around the nape of the neck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A European wild pigeon (
Columba palumbus ) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called alsowood pigeon , andcushat .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
wood pigeon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck
- noun greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged
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Examples
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So they entered and found all manner fruits in view and birds of every kind and hue, such as ringdove, nightingale and curlew; and the turtle and the cushat sang their love lays on the sprays.
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So they entered and found all manner fruits in view and birds of every kind and hue, such as ringdove, nightingale and curlew; and the turtle and the cushat sang their love lays on the sprays.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The ringdove thanks the Lord for her (his?) suffering in the holy martyrdom of love.
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Then, after ending his verses, he fainted again; and, presently reviving he went on to the second cage, wherein he found a ringdove.
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Yea, I will laud thee while the ringdove moans, viii.
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‘Very well, thankee, uncle,’ returned Mr. Sempronius, who had just appeared, looking something like a ringdove, with a small circle round each eye: the result of his constant corking.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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Her words rang out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily.
Ulysses 2003
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There are other birds that live on fruit and herbage, such as the wild pigeon or ringdove, the common pigeon, the rock-dove, and the turtle-dove.
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Sometimes it lays its eggs in the nest of a smaller bird after first devouring the eggs of this bird; it lays by preference in the nest of the ringdove, after first devouring the eggs of the pigeon.
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Birds of the pigeon kind, such as the ringdove and the turtle-dove, lay two eggs at a time; that is to say, they do so as
brtom commented on the word ringdove
"Her words rang out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily."
Joyce, Ulysses, 13
January 14, 2007
ofravens commented on the word ringdove
Ringdoves roost well within his wood,
shirr songs to suit which mood
he saunters in
from "Ode for Ted," Sylvia Plath
April 14, 2008