Culver Meaning
/ˈkʌlvə/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
nounA culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
Sentence Examples
The old house was located near the sleepy town of Culver.
Culver City is famous for its history in the film industry.
The wild culver nested in the high branches of the tree.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ flew gracefully over the old barn in the countryside.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old house was located near the sleepy town of ____.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English culver, from Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula (“little pigeon”), from Latin columba (“pigeon, dove”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Had he ſo doen, he had him ſnatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fiſt."
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 281:
"Then he walked on a little and came to a goodly cage, than which was no goodlier there, and in it a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair."
— 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter al-Ward Fi’l-Akmam or Rose-in-Hood. [Night 376.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume V, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 49:
"Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt, their deadly hail to shower; […]"
— 1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 108:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ flew gracefully over the old barn in the countryside.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old house was located near the sleepy town of ____.