Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Various; several; sundry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Different in kind, quality, or manner; various.
- Several; sundry; more than one, but not a great number: as, we have divers examples of this kind.
- Synonyms Divers, Diverse. Divers implies difference only, and is always used with a plural noun; diverse (with either a singular or a plural noun) denotes difference with opposition. Thus, the evangelists narrate the same events in divers manners, but not in diverse. Trench.
Wiktionary
- adj. Obsolete spelling of diverse.
- adj. Various.
- adj. dated Of many different sorts.
- n. Plural form of diver.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Different in kind or species; diverse.
- adj. Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number. Also used substantively or pronominally.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. many and different
Etymologies
- See diver (Wiktionary)
- Middle English; see diverse. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_first_, to know the divers complexions and constitutions; secondly, the _diseases_; and, lastly, the _cures_; so in medicining of the mind, -- after knowledge of the _divers characters_ of _men's natures_, it followeth, in order, to know the diseases and infirmities of the mind, which are no other than the perturbations and distempers of the affections. ”
“Foley says the depth among U.S. springboard divers is going to toughen them up in the run-up to 2012.”
London calling: U.S. female divers on springboard to success in 2012
“They staggered beneath the unwonted effort, and legs became drunken with weariness and titubated in divers directions till the sunlight darkened and bearer and burden fell by the way.”
“These masks, broken in divers places by the movement of the facial muscles, had constantly to be renewed, so that the deposit was irregular of depth and peculiar of aspect.”
“Also, she amplified the retort courteous in divers vivid and unprintable ways.”
“By the time Corliss returned with the last load of wood, the pocket-miner had cleared away the snow and moss in divers spots, and formed, in general design, a rude cross.”
“The mystery of the man I had not appealed to him, nor had his silence and the veiled romance which the yellow reporters had so sensationally and so fruitlessly explotted in divers Sunday editions.”
“And the arts of peace flourished, and you multiplied yourself in divers ways.”
“They unhesitating to send the existence of ss to varied in divers of the less-developed countries.”
“Snorkeling tours run from $35US to $80US; a guided dive (2 tanks) for certified divers is about $130US.”
Cabo Pulmo: from beaches and baskets to mines, music and marine park, part two
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘divers’.
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Mobying Along
looks like there's not an open Moby Dick list. So now there is.
hypos, Manhattoes, circumambulate, mole, grapnels, bowsprit, asphaltic, mazy, tranced, cataract, ungraspable, judgmatically and 227 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Jane Eyre
abigail, sanguine, chancel, bourne, peremptorily, parley, unwonted, fagging, convolvuli, tarry, insuperable, execrations and 190 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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etymological curiosities
Convergences. ('Convergent homonyms' is one candidate for the term; I'm not yet sure whether I like it best, even after a long time collecting.)
None of these are polysemous (identica...brook, mere, rum, juke, drill, duck, tick, hone, low, bat, may, bear and 79 more...
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Job
Paired words spelled exactly the same with different pronunciation and meaning, depending...
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Old Words And Spellings
They don't make 'em like they used to.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for divers.
juliakbird Hi,
I think this word should be "diverse" and not "divers" Oct 28, 2009
minerva Also adj.: diverse, various Dec 10, 2007