name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
culver
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Pronunciation
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/ˈkʌlvə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ʌlvə
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CMU ARPABET: K AH1 L V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Marshall County, Indiana.
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Ottawa County, Kansas.
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky.
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and township in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.
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name
Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Bates County, Missouri.
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name
Meaning 7
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Jefferson County, Oregon.
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noun
Meaning 8
A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Qualifier: south and east dialect or poetic
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noun
Meaning 9
A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
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History
Etymology
From Middle English culver, from Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula (“little pigeon”), from Latin columba (“pigeon, dove”).
From culverin, perhaps by confusion with culver (“dove or pigeon”).