name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Spencer County, Indiana.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
Two townships in Indiana, in Vanderburgh County and Warrick County.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Winsor Township, Huron County, Michigan.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia, named after Pigeon Run.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
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Usage: countable
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Synonyms: culver, dove
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noun
The meat from this bird.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, countable, informal
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Synonyms: dupe, fish, sucker, chump, chumpion, cousin, cull, cully, dotterel, easy mark, fall guy, gudgeon, gull, juggins, live one, mark, mug, muggins, pigeon, rube, sap, saphead, schlemiel, sheep, simp, Simple Simon, soft touch, steamer, stiff, stooge
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noun
A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A weak or useless person.
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Usage: Australia, countable, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Concern or responsibility.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, countable, idiomatic, informal, uncountable
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verb
To deceive with a confidence game.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: columbiform bird
Narrower terms: pouter pigeon, pouter, dove, rock dove, rock pigeon, Columba livia, band-tailed pigeon, band-tail pigeon, bandtail, Columba fasciata, wood pigeon, ringdove, cushat, Columba palumbus, domestic pigeon, squab, passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius
History
Etymology tree Latin pīpiō Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin pipio Old French pyjonbor. Middle English pygeoun English pigeon Inherited from Middle English pygeoun, borrowed from Old French pyjon, inherited from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), derived from Latin pīpiāre (“to chirp”), of imitative origin. Partly displaced native English dove.
From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. See pidgin.
Across languages
296 source translations are retained for this English entry.