wood pigeon

Questions about wood pigeon

What is another word for wood pigeon?

It depends which wood pigeon you mean. In the sense “Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck”, the synonyms are ringdove, cushat, Columba palumbus. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 wood pigeon?

WordNet records no antonym for wood pigeon. 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 wood pigeon 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 wood pigeon

• Full entry for wood pigeonAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wood pigeonWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.