- A stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having gray and white plumage
- Pigeon is a brand of cigarettes produced in Portugal.
- wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
- Pigeons and doves constitute the bird family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerines. In general parlance the terms "dove" and "pigeon" are used somewhat interchangeably.
- A pigeon descended from the wild rock dove, kept for racing, showing, and carrying messages, and common as a feral bird in towns
- A gullible person, esp. someone swindled in gambling or the victim of a confidence trick