mourning dove

Questions about mourning dove

What is another word for mourning dove?

It depends which mourning dove you mean. In the sense “wild dove of the United States having a mournful call”, the synonyms are Zenaidura macroura. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mourning dove?

WordNet records no antonym for mourning dove. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mourning dove come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mourning dove

• Full entry for mourning doveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mourning doveWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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