ringdove

Other forms of ringdove

plural

ringdoves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ringdove

What does ringdove mean?

ringdove means "greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ringdove?

ringdove has 2 syllables: ring-dove. The stress falls on "ring".

What is another word for ringdove?

Close synonyms include Streptopelia risoria, wood pigeon, cushat, Columba palumbus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ringdove a common word?

ringdove is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.