pigeons
Syllables: pi·geonsUK/ˈpɪd͡ʒɪns/US/ˈpɪd͡ʒəns/
pigeons is the plural of pigeon.
pigeons is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pigeon.
Meaning of pigeon
Noun
pigeon (countable and uncountable, plural pigeons)
- One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
- The meat from this bird.
- A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.
- A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.
- A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.
- Kalb rushed to the airport and found a "pigeon" to take out the film: an American woman headed for London.1989, Whitman Bassow, The Moscow Correspondents, page 214
- A weak or useless person.
Proper noun capitalized: Pigeons
Pigeons
- plural of Pigeon
Phrases with pigeons
- hen pigeons
- owl pigeons
- sea pigeons
- blue pigeons
- clay pigeons
- cock pigeons
- King pigeons
- moon pigeons
- pink pigeons
- rock pigeons
- snow pigeons
- wood pigeons
42 more phrasesFewer phrases
- crown pigeons
- feral pigeons
- fruit pigeons
- green pigeons
- ha-ha pigeons
- homer pigeons
- stock pigeons
- stool pigeons
- wonga pigeons
- homing pigeons
- nutmeg pigeons
- racing pigeons
- street pigeons
- carrier pigeons
- crested pigeons
- crowned pigeons
- Nicobar pigeons
- topknot pigeons
- utility pigeons
- domestic pigeons
- spinifex pigeons
- messenger pigeons
- passenger pigeons
- trumpeter pigeons
- bronzewing pigeons
- common wood pigeons
- New Zealand pigeons
- tooth-billed pigeons
- white nutmeg pigeons
- Madeiran wood pigeons
- Torres Strait pigeons
- Chatham Island pigeons
- pink-necked green pigeons
- thick-billed green pigeons
- Torresian imperial pigeons
- put the cat among the pigeons
- set the cat among the pigeons
- puts the cat among the pigeons
- sets the cat among the pigeons
- Australian pied imperial pigeons
- putting the cat among the pigeons
- setting the cat among the pigeons
Questions about pigeons
- What is pigeons the plural of?
- Pigeons is the plural of pigeon.
- What part of speech is pigeons?
- Pigeons is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pigeons?
- Pigeons is pronounced /ˈpɪd͡ʒɪns/ (UK).
Words near pigeons in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pigeons (page history and authors); Pigeons (page history and authors); pigeon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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