Pigeon

Noun

 * 1) One of several birds of the family Columbidae.
 * 2)  A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.

Synonyms

 * columbid (Columbidae)
 * columbiform (Columbiformes)
 * culver
 * dove (especially a white pigeon)
 * dupe, mark, mug, sucker, rube, stiff

Derived terms

 * Afep Pigeon (Columba unicincta)
 * African owl pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * African Green Pigeon (Treron calvus)
 * African Olive Pigeon
 * American pigeon (Patagioenas)
 * Arabian trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * archangel pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * baby pigeon
 * Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata)
 * barb pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Barbary pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * bare-eyed mountain pigeon
 * bare-eyed pigeon
 * Beretta Silver Pigeon
 * Bismarck imperial pigeon
 * black imperial pigeon
 * Bokhara trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Bolle's pigeon (Columba bollii)
 * Bresse pigeon
 * Flock Bronzewing Pigeon (Phaps histrionica), Flock Bronzewing (Phaps histrionica)
 * Brown Pigeon (Macropygia phasianella)
 * carrier pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * carneau pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Chilean Pigeon (Patagioenas araucana)
 * Chinese owl pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * city pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * clay pigeon
 * cock pigeon
 * color pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * colour pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Comoros Green Pigeon (Treron comorensis)
 * crescent pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes)
 * crested pigeon
 * crop pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * cropper pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Crowned pigeon (Goura)
 * Delegorgue's Pigeon (Columba delegorguei)
 * domestic pigeon, (Columba livia domestica), Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia f. domestica)
 * dovecot pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * dovecote pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Dresden trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei)
 * English trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * English owl pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * fancy pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * fantail pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * female pigeon
 * feral pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * field pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * fire pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Flock Pigeon (Phaps histrionica)
 * form pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * frillback pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * fruit pigeon, fruit-pigeon
 * Future Pigeon
 * gimpel pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Green pigeon (Treron)
 * helmet pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * hen pigeon
 * highflyer pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Hill Pigeon (Columba rupestris)
 * homer pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * homing pigeon (Columba livia domestica)


 * ice pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Imperial pigeon (Ducula)
 * Indian fantail pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * jacobin pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * John Silver (war pigeon)
 * king pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Komorner tumbler pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Madagascar Green Pigeon (Treron australis)
 * Micronesian Imperial Pigeon (Ducula oceanica)
 * Micronesian Pigeon (Ducula oceanica)
 * Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon
 * Moluccan Fufous-bellied Fruit Pigeon (Ducula basilica)
 * lahore pigeon (Columba livia domestica), Lahore pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Laurel Pigeon (Columba junoniae)
 * male pigeon
 * New Guinea Bronzewing (Henicophaps albifrons), New Guinea Bronzewing Pigeon (Henicophaps albifrons)
 * nun pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Old English carrier pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * oriental frill pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis)
 * Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)
 * peak-crested pigeon
 * pheasant pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Pheasant Pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis)
 * Picazuro Pigeon (Patagioenas picazuro)
 * pigeon band
 * pigeon banding
 * pigeon blue
 * pigeon breast
 * pigeon-breasted
 * pigeon breed
 * pigeon breeder
 * pigeon breeding
 * pigeon bug
 * pigeon-chested
 * pigeon clock
 * pigeon cot
 * pigeon cote
 * pigeon crop
 * pigeon defence
 * pigeon defense
 * pigeon dirt
 * pigeon disease
 * pigeon drop
 * pigeon droppings
 * pigeon egg
 * pigeon English (archaic)
 * pigeon fancier, pigeon-fancier
 * pigeon fancy
 * pigeon fancying
 * pigeon feather
 * pigeon feed
 * pigeon feeder
 * pigeon feeding
 * pigeon flute
 * pigeon guillemot
 * pigeon hawk (Falco columbarius)
 * pigeon house
 * pigeonhole, pigeon-hole, pigeon hole
 * pigeonholing, pigeon-holing
 * pigeon hunt
 * pigeon hunter
 * pigeon hunting
 * pigeon journal
 * pigeon keeper
 * pigeon keeping


 * pigeon loft
 * pigeon lung
 * pigeon magazine
 * pigeon milk
 * pigeon's milk
 * pigeon pair
 * pigeon pie
 * pigeon plumage
 * pigeon post
 * pigeon shoot
 * pigeon squab
 * pigeon racer
 * pigeon racing
 * pigeon ring
 * pigeon whistle
 * pigeon wing
 * pigeon young
 * Pink Pigeon (Columba mayeri), formerly (Nesoenas  mayeri)
 * plain-headed pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Plain Pigeon (Patagioenas inornata)
 * Plumbeous Pigeon (Patagioenas inornata)
 * pouter pigeon (Columba livia)
 * powter pigeon (old spelling) (Columba livia)
 * put the cat among the pigeons
 * racing homer pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * racing pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * ringbeater pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * rock pigeon (Columba livia)
 * roller pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Ruddy Pigeon (Patagioenas subvinacea)
 * Rufous-Bellied Fruit Pigeon (Ducula rufigaster)
 * Rufous Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis)
 * runt pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * Saxon field pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
 * scandaroon pigeon (Columba livia domestica), Scandaroon pigeon  (Columba livia domestica)
 * shell-crested pigeon
 * silver pigeon
 * Silver Pigeon
 * silvery pigeon
 * Snow Pigeon
 * Somali Pigeon
 * Somber Pigeon (Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa)
 * Sombre Pigeon(Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa)
 * Stock Pigeon (Columba oenas)
 * stool pigeon
 * strasser pigeon (Columba livia)
 * structure pigeon (Columba livia)
 * Sumatran Green Pigeon
 * Temminck's Fruit Pigeon (Ptilinopus porphyreus)
 * Thuringian field pigeon (Columba livia)
 * Topknot Pigeon
 * Trocaz Pigeon
 * trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia)
 * tumbler pigeon (Columba livia)
 * turbit pigeon (Columba livia)
 * turbiteen pigeon (Columba livia)
 * Victoria Crowned Pigeon, (Goura victoria)
 * war pigeon
 * wattle pigeon (Columba livia)
 * wattled pigeon (Columba livia)
 * White-collared Pigeon
 * White-crowned Pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala)
 * wild pigeon
 * Wild Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)
 * Wompoo Pigeon (Ptilinopus magnificus)
 * Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca)
 * woodpigeon, wood-pigeon, wood pigeon
 * young pigeon

Verb

 * 1)  to deceive with a confidence game

Adjectives for Pigeon
nimble; plumaged; monogamous; carrier; useful; homing; well-trained.

Verbs for Pigeon
drive—s; capture-tame—s; —broods; darken; —darts; flutters ; —gluts; — strays.

Thesaurus
Cornish hen, avifauna, babe, baby bird, bamboozle, beat, beguile, beguile of, betray, bilk, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, bluff, boob, broiler, bunco, burn, cage bird, caille, cajole, canard, caneton, capon, chapon, cheat, cheat on, chick, chicken, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, chump, cinch, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, conjure, cozen, credulous person, crib, cull, cygnet, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, dindon, diving bird, do in, do out of, double-cross, dove, duck, duckling, dupe, eagle, eaglet, easy mark, easy pickings, euchre, faisan, fall guy, finagle, fish, fish-eating bird, flam, fledgling, fleece, flightless bird, flimflam, fob, fool, forestall, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fryer, fudge, fulmar, game bird, gammon, get around, gobe-mouches, goose, gouge, greener, greenhorn, greeny, grouse, gudgeon, guff, guinea hen, gull, gyp, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, innocent, insect-eating bird, juggle, leadpipe cinch, let down, mark, migrant, migratory bird, mock, monkey, mulct, nestling, oie, oscine bird, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, owl, pack the deal, partridge, passerine bird, patsy, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pheasant, pigeonneau, play one false, plaything, poulet, practice fraud upon, prize sap, pushover, put something over, quail, ratite, roaster, rook, sap, saphead, scam, schlemiel, screw, sea bird, seed-eating bird, sell gold bricks, shave, shore bird, shortchange, sitting duck, snow, songbird, squab, stack the cards, stewing chicken, stick, sting, stooge, storm petrel, stormy petrel, string along, sucker, swan, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, toy, trick, trusting soul, turkey, two-time, victim, victimize, volaille, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wild duck, wildfowl

Alternative forms

 * pidgeon

Etymology
pijon:, from pipionem:, accusative form of  pipio:, from pipire:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (Hamaama)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: uso,
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: dube
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: colom
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese: 鴿子, 鸽子 (gēzi)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:,  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Esperanto:,  ,  ,  ,  ,  kolombeno,  kolombedo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: dúgva
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:,  ,
 * Friulian:
 * Galician: pomba
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  Kolumbide
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: pykasu, jeruti
 * Hawaiian: nūnū
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:,  kolombulo,  kolombino,  kolombyuno,  kolombeto
 * Indonesian: merpati, burung merpati, dara, burung dara
 * Interlingua: columba, pipion
 * Irish:, ,
 * Italian:, picciona, ,
 * Japanese: 鳩 (はと, hato)
 * Kashubian:
 * Khmer: ព្រាប
 * Korean: 비둘기 (bidulgi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Ladin: colomba
 * Ladino: palomba, palumba
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:, , ,
 * Latvian: balodis
 * Lithuanian: ,


 * Low German:, Düffer,
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: burung merpati
 * Maltese: ħamiema
 * Maori: karoro tangi harau
 * Mapudungun: conulaf
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ,
 * Occitan: colomb
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English: dūfe (unattested) (cf. Dūfe woman's given name)
 * Persian: ,
 * Polabian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: irpa
 * Romani: golumbo, golumbaika
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: columba
 * Russian:
 * Sami: duvvá (livia), dielkoduvvá (palumbus)
 * Sardinian: piccioni aresti, caombu, palumba, columbu
 * Scottish: calman
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: голуб, голубица
 * Roman: golub, golubica
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kalapati
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: புறா
 * Telugu: పావురం (paavuram)
 * Thai: (nók pírâap)
 * Tupinambá: pykasu
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: كەپتەر
 * Vietnamese: chim bồ câu
 * Volapük:,  ,  ,  ,  hipijunül,  jipijunül
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: do
 * Yiddish:


 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Russian: лох
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * 1) pigeon

Anagrams

 * poigne