diverse

• divers (obsolete)

From Old French divers, from Latin diversus (“various, different”), also written divorsus, past participle of diverto, divortere (“to turn or go different ways, part, separate, divert”); see divert.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɜːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɨ.ˈvɝs/, /daɪ.ˈvɝs/, /ˈdaɪ.vɚs/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

diverse (comparative more diverse, superlative most diverse)

1. Consisting of many different elements; various.
2. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
   • (Can we date this quote by J. Edwards?)

     The word […] is used in a sense very diverse from its original import.

   • 1876, Robert Browning, Bifurcation

     Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she.

   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

3. Capable of various forms; multiform.
   • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson?)

     Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.

4. Containing people groups that are minorities in a given area
5. Belonging to a minority group

• (consisting of many different elements): diverse, manifold; See also Thesaurus:heterogeneous
• (different): See also Thesaurus:different

• (consisting of many different elements): homogeneous; See also Thesaurus:homogeneous

• divert
• diversity

diverse (comparative more diverse, superlative most diverse)

1. In different directions; diversely.

• diverse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• diverse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• derives, dervise, deviser, drivees, revised, sivered

From Latin diversus, via French divers

diverse

1. various, sundry, miscellaneous, incidental.
   • han annoncerede under «diverse»
     • he inserted an ad in the "miscellaneous" section
   • Synonyms:
     • alle mulige
     • alskens
     • forskellige
     • forskelligartet
2. Capable of various forms; multiform.

• “diverse” in Den Danske Ordbog

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diverse

1. Inflected form of divers

• de Vries

diverse

1. diversely

diverse

1. feminine singular of divers

• dérives, dérivés, verdies

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diverse

1. inflected form of divers

diverse

1. Feminine plural of adjective diverso.

diverse

1. third-person singular past historic of divergere

• sedervi, vedersi

• dīvorsē

From dīversus (“turned different ways”)

dīversē (not comparable)

1. in different directions; hither and thither
2. (figuratively) variously

• dīversitās
• dīversus

• diverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• diverse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• diverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

• divers, dyvyrs, dyvers, dyverse, dyverce

From Old French divers, from Latin diversus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdivərs/, /ˈdiːvərs/

diverse

1. different, differing
2. (collectively) distinct, unique; diverse
3. various, varying
4. strange, odd, unusual
5. several, many
6. unfriendly

• diversite

• English: diverse
• Scots: diverse

• “dī̆vers(e (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

diverse

1. differently; diversely
2. variously

• English: diverse

• “dī̆verse (adv.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

From Latin diversus, via French divers

diverse (indeclinable)

1. diverse, various, sundry, miscellaneous.

   han annonserte under «diverse»

   he inserted an ad in the "miscellaneous" section

2. Capable of various forms; multiform.

• “diverse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin diversus, via French divers

diverse (indeclinable)

1. diverse, various, sundry, miscellaneous.
2. Capable of various forms; multiform.

• “diverse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

diverse (not comparable) (plural only)

1. diverse, various, different