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Definition: Dovecote |
DovecoteNoun1. A shelter for birds (especially pigeons). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dovecote" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Any installation used for keeping or breeding racing pigeons. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DovecoteSynonyms: birdhouse (n), columbarium (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dovecote |
| English words defined with "dovecote": Columbary, Culverhouse ♦ Dovecot ♦ Pigeon house, Pigeonry. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dovecote": Peristerion. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Dovecote" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Dovecote" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dovecote | 13 |
dovecote plan | 5 |
build dovecote | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dovecote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kafaz pëllumbash (dovecot, pigeonhole). (various references) | |
Arabic | برج الحمام (pigeonhole). (various references) | |
Czech | holubník (dovecot, pigeon loft, pigeonhole). (various references) | |
Danish | dueslag (pigeon house). (various references) | |
Dutch | duiventil (pigeon house), duivenhok (pigeon house), til (pigeon house, tumor infiltrating lymphocyte, tumor-derived activated cell, tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, tumour infiltrating lymphocyte). (various references) | |
Finnish | kyyhkyslakka (pigeon house). (various references) | |
French | colombier. (various references) | |
German | taubenschlag (pigeon loft, pigeonry), taubenhaus (pigeon loft). (various references) | |
Greek | περιστερώνας (pigeon house). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שובך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | galambdúc (columbarium, Cote, dovecot, loft, pigeon-hole, pigeonry). (various references) | |
Italian | piccionaia (pigeon house), colombaia (dovecot). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鳩小屋 (pigeon house). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はと"や (pigeon house). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ovecoteday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pombal (cockloft, dovecot, hayloft, haymow, loft, pigeonry). (various references) | |
Russian | голубятня (columbarium, dovecot, loft, pigeonry). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | golubarnik (dovecot, loft). (various references) | |
Spanish | palomar (dovecot, pigeon house, pigeon loft). (various references) | |
Swedish | duvslag (columbarium, dovecot, loft, pigeonry). (various references) | |
Turkish | güvercinlik (dove cot, dove-cote, loft, pigeon house, pigeon loft, pigeonry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | голубник (dovecot, loft, pigeon house). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dovecote": dovecotes. (additional references) | |
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"Dovecote" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dovecoat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-o-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: coveted, dovecot. | |
-2 letters: cooeed, devote, vetoed. | |
-3 letters: cooed, cooee, coted, coved, covet, voted. | |
-4 letters: cede, cete, code, coed, coot, cote, cove, deco, deet, dote, dove, teed, toed, veto, vote. | |
-5 letters: cee, cod, coo, cot, dee, dev, doc, doe, dot, eve, ode, oot, ted, tee, tod, toe, too, vee, vet, voe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-o-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: dovecotes. | |
+3 letters: overcounted, overstocked. | |
+4 letters: controverted, countermoved, overdecorate, overdocument. | |
+5 letters: overcautioned, overcommitted, overconfident, overcorrected, overdecorated, overdecorates, overdocuments, overeducation, overprotected. | |
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