Noun: turtle dove
| Singular | turtle dove |
| Plural | turtle doves |
Sample Sentences
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[…] and then on a common impulse this curiously simple pair of habitual criminals were in each other's arms and exchanging fond kisses for all the world like honest lovers.
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"Hullo, turtle doves," remarked Nickle, stumbling in upon this idyll and accepting it with saving coolness. [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
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Out for their evening constitutional. A lovely pair of turtledoves. Around the jolly corner, and off to the park. [1961, 101 Dalmatians:]
Nouns inflected like turtle dove
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English turtildove, turteldoufe (cognate with Old High German turtultūba, turtulatūba, turtiltūba, Middle High German turteltūbe, türteltūbe, German Turteltaube; German Low German Turtelduuv, Dutch tortelduif, Faroese turtildúgva, Icelandic turtildúfa), Danish turteldue, Norwegian Bokmål turteldue, Norwegian Nynorsk turteldue, Swedish turturduva. The first element is from Latin turtur (“turtledove”) (compare the archaic synonym turtle (“turtle dove (bird)”); the word is not related to turtle (“reptile with a shell”). See: Middle English Nouns '
turtildove', German Nouns '
Turteltaube', Dutch Nouns '
tortelduif', Faroese Nouns '
turtildúgva', Icelandic Nouns '
turtildúfa', Danish Nouns '
turteldue', Swedish Nouns '
turturduva', Latin Nouns '
turtur'.
Verbs referencing "turtle dove"
Swedish Nouns
turturduva.