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# dovecote

«dovecote» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small house or box built high up, where pigeons or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dovecote, dovecotes; also dovecot)

### meaning for a pupil

A dovecote is a small house or box built high up, where pigeons or doves live and lay their eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dovecote/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a dovecote is a home for birds on a farm or in a castle, often a place where a danger, like a hawk, comes in.

### examples

- The pigeons flew back to the dovecote at dusk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dovecote/#x1)
- Grandad built a dovecote on the barn wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dovecote/#x2)
- A fox crept round the dovecote looking for a meal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dovecote/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dovecote» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dovecote/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.