ringdove

American  

[ring-duhv] / ˈrɪŋˌdʌv /

Or ring dove

noun

1. a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.

2. wood pigeon.

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ringdove British  

/ ˈrɪŋˌdʌv /

noun

1. another name for wood pigeon

2. an Old World turtledove, Streptopelia risoria , having a greyish plumage with a black band around the neck

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Etymology

Origin of ringdove

First recorded in 1530–40; ring ¹ + dove ¹

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Example Sentences

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ringdove

The ringdove sate silent in the dell; and the wood-quests were gathering into groups.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

A more descriptive name is that of ringdove, easily explained by the white collar, but the bird is also known as cushat, queest, or even culver.

From Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

Yea, I will laud thee while the ringdove moans, viii.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Only the keeper sees That, where the ringdove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods.

From The Lost Road by Richard Harding Davis

Only, unlike our metropolitan doves, both the domestic kind and the ringdove in the parks, the Salisbury doves though in the town are not of it.

From Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

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