a fat grey and white bird with short legs. Pigeons are common in cities and also live in woods and fields where people shoot them for sport or food. 鸽子 
the sound of pigeons cooing 鸽子咕咕的叫声 A pigeon strutted along the roof, cooing rhythmically. 一只鸽子沿着屋顶大摇大摆地走，有节奏地咕咕叫 。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- carrier
- homing
- racing
- …
- flock
- fly
- nest
- roost
- …
- droppings
- shit
- coop
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French pijon, denoting a young bird, especially a young dove, from an alteration of late Latin pipio(n-), ‘young cheeping bird’, of imitative origin.
Idioms
be somebody’s pigeon
- (British English, old-fashioned)
to be somebody’s responsibility or business 是某人的职责（或事情）
put/set the cat among the pigeons
- (British English)
to say or do something that is likely to cause trouble 引起麻烦；招惹是非 Then she told them she was dropping out of college. That really set the cat among the pigeons. 然后她告诉他们她要从大学退学了。那真是把猫放在鸽子中间了。