Dove (disambiguation)
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A dove is a type of bird in the family of doves and pigeons
Dove may also refer to:
Birds
- In popular usage, often refers to small columbids that are used as symbols of peace, white or gray in color
- Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria), a domestic species that is typically gray in colour, but often bred to be white
 - Small white-feathered domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica), which are used as release doves
 
 
People
- Dove (given name), given name in the English language
 - Dove (surname), surname in the English language
 
Places
Extraterrestrial
- Dove (crater), on the Moon
 - Dove or Columba (constellation)
 
Terrestrial
- Dove, Missouri, United States
 - Dove Holes, Derbyshire, England
 - Dove Lake (Tasmania), Australia
 - Dove River (Canterbury), New Zealand
 - Dove River (Tasman), New Zealand
 - River Dove, Barnsley, England
 - River Dove, Derbyshire, England
 - River Dove, North Yorkshire, England
 - River Dove, Suffolk, England
 - The Dove (glacier), Colorado, United States
 - The Dove, Hammersmith, a public house in London, England
 - Dove Cottage, writer's home museum of William Wordsworth in Grasmere, England
 
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Hawk and Dove, a DC Comics superhero team
 - "Little Dove", an alias for the character Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones
 
Music
Groups
- Dove (band), an Australian soft rock band (1973–1978)
 - Doves (band), an English band
 
Albums
- Dove (Belly album), an album by American alternative rock band Belly
 - Dove (Floor album), an album by American sludge metal band Floor
 
Songs
- "Dove" (song), a song by Italian musician Mooney
 - "Dove", a song by Tyrannosaurus Rex from their 1970 album A Beard of Stars
 
Other uses in music
- Dove, an alias of American rapper David Jude Jolicoeur
 - Dove (the Band of Love), Devo's fake opening act
 - GMA Dove Awards, an American musical award
 - Gibson Dove, a type of guitar
 
Other uses in media
- "Doves", a Series D episode of the television series QI (2006)
 
Brands and enterprises
- Dove (chocolate brand), a brand of chocolate made by Mars
 - Dove (Unilever brand), a brand of soap and other personal care products by Unilever
 
Military
- HMS Dove (1898), a British destroyer
 - Operation Dove (Ireland), an aborted 1940 German World War II mission
 - Operation Dove, a 1944 Allied World War II assault in southern France
 
Science and technology
- Dove (satellite), a constellation of small Earth-imaging satellites operated by Planet Labs
 - Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE), a tunneling and virtualization technology for computer networks
 - Dove Marine Laboratory
 - Dove tree
 - Dove Medical Press
 
Vehicles
- Dove (ship), 17th-century English trading ship re-created as the Maryland Dove
 - Dove (steamboat)
 - de Havilland Dove, a post–World War II short-haul airliner
 
Other uses
- DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events), a project of the General Register Office for England and Wales to digitise birth, marriage, and death records
 - Dove Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon
 - Dove Publications, an American publishing house headquartered in Mineola, New York
 - Dove, slang for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
 - Basel Dove, an 1845 Swiss postage stamp
 - Monetary hawk and dove, someone who favors low unemployment in monetary policy
 - War dove, a person favoring peace in a debate over whether to go to war
 - Doves (Gibraltar) or palomos, a group of Gibraltarians that advocated, in the 1960s, for a settlement with Spain