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divers

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di·vers  (dvrz)
adj.
Various; several; sundry.
[Middle English; see diverse.]
divers [ˈdaɪvəz]
determiner
Archaic or literary
a.  various; sundry; some
b.  (as pronoun; functioning as plural) divers of them
[from Old French, from Latin dīversus turned in different directions; see divert]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.divers - many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents"
diverse
different - unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one"
Translations
divers [ˈdaɪvɜːz] ADJ (liter) → diversos, varios
divers
adj attr → mehrere, diverse


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The other Indian divers immediately plunged over the boat's side and swam headlong down, groping among the rocks and sunken cannon.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Here I exchanged my nuts for pepper and good aloes wood, and went a-fishing for pearls with some of the other merchants, and my divers were so lucky that very soon I had an immense number, and those very large and perfect.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times-- rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length--we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
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