Connotation vs. Dove — What's the Difference?

A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.

A stocky bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, feeding on seeds or fruit. Doves are generally smaller and more delicate than pigeons, but many kinds have been given both names.

The act or process of connoting.

A person who advocates peaceful or conciliatory policies, especially in foreign affairs

An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing

(in Christian art and poetry) the Holy Spirit (as represented in John 1:32).

The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.

Any of various widely distributed birds of the family Columbidae, which includes the pigeons, having a small head and a characteristic cooing call.

(Logic) The set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term; intension.

A gentle, innocent person.

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

A person who advocates peace, conciliation, or negotiation in preference to confrontation or armed conflict.

(logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.

See Columba.

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

A past tense of dive1. See Usage Note at dive1.

A meaning implied but not explicitly denoted by some word or expression, which may be understood in addition to the explicit primary meaning.

(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.

The full set of necessary properties possessed by all the objects within the extension of a term; the intensional meaning of a term, which determines the objects to which the term applies; the intension of a term.

A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression

(countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

An idea that is implied or suggested

A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.

Strong dive

(non-standard) dive

A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous.

A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

A person advocating peace, compromise or conciliation rather than war or conflict. Opposite of hawk.

Any of numerous small pigeons

Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum

Flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled

An emblem of peace