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Definitions for DIVERS
ˈdaɪ vərzdivers

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. divers(a), diverseadjective

    many and different

    "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Diversadjective

    Several; sundry; more than one. It is now grown out of use.

    Etymology: diversus, Latin.

    We have divers examples in the primitive church of such as, by fear, being compelled to sacrifice to strange gods, after repented, and kept still the office of preaching the gospel. John Whitgift.

    The teeth breed when the child is a year and a half old: then they cast them, and new ones come about seven years; but divers have backward teeth come at twenty, some at thirty and forty. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 755.

    Divers letters were shot into the city with arrows, wherein Solyman’s councils were revealed. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

    Divers friends thought it strange, that a white dry body should acquire a rich colour, upon the affusion of springwater. Robert Boyle, on Colours.

ChatGPT

  1. divers

    Divers, an adjective, is an archaic term for various or several. It is used to refer to an array, multitude, or variety of different items, types or kinds.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Diversadjective

    different in kind or species; diverse

  2. Diversadjective

    several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally

  3. Etymology: [F. divers, L. diversus turned in different directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. Diverse.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Divers

    dī′vėrz, adj. sundry: several: more than one: (B.) same as Diverse. [See Divert.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DIVERS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Divers is ranked #20076 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Divers surname appeared 1,331 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Divers.

    67.4% or 898 total occurrences were White.
    27.6% or 368 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 38 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.3% or 18 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DIVERS in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DIVERS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of DIVERS in a Sentence

  1. Jonathan Geller:

    Divers or people visiting the beach may not notice anything that looks unusual to the untrained eye.

  2. Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo:

    The divers are tying the tail with straps and then we will try [to lift the tail] two ways - floating balloons combined with cranes, so that the tail sector wouldn't be damaged, because we assume the black box is in the tail sector.

  3. John Tecklenburg:

    Mayor John Tecklenburg said Wednesday the girl’s mother was brutally beaten but in fair condition at a local hospital. Mayor John Tecklenburg said the girl’s father was out of town on a Coast Guard training mission when Heidi Renae Todd vanished. We are looking for her, every nook and cranny, divers in the lake, helicopters, we don't know if Heidi Renae Todd might have been taken away in a vehicle or not.

  4. David Mearns:

    With an interim report due to be delivered within a month of the accident, authorities have expressed hopes a remote underwater vehicle provides evidence. FRENCH SOCCER CLUB DEMAND PAYMENT OVER $ 19M EMILIANO SALA TRANSFER AS DIVERS SEARCH FOR HIS BODY The formal search was called off within three days of the plane disappearing from radar last month. It took a campaign by Salas family to raise funds for a private search by American-born, shipwreck-hunting specialist David Mearns, who located the aircraft within hours on Sunday in conjunction with air crash investigators. David Mearns told BBC Radio Wales that finding the pilots body would be difficult. Ive been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.

  5. Melissa Ilardo:

    Free diving is extremely dangerous, and so even highly trained free divers often die because they lose consciousness on ascent and they drown, if that's happening over thousands of years, then the people who are surviving are those that are carrying the genes that give them an advantage.

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