diver
/ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)/
diver noun: someone who dives, especially as a sport.
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Noun
diver (plural divers)
- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- A passerby noticed the man's body protruding from the water at about 9 p.m. and Boston and Metropolitan police divers were called to the scene.1979 August 25, “Body Found Near the Fenway”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 2
- Synonyms:
- urinator
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- loon (Gavia spp.)
- A New Zealand sand diver (Tewara cranwellae)
- A long-finned sand diver (Limnichthys polyactis)
- A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- A pickpocket.
- A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
diver meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
diver in Hindi
- underwater
- ग़ोताख़ोर ġotāxor, गोताखोर gotākhor
- someone who works underwater
- ग़ोताख़ोर ġotāxor, गोताखोर gotākhor
diver in Tamil
- நீர்மூழ்கி, கடலில் சங்கு குளிப்பவர், மூழ்காளர்
diver in Urdu
- a diver
- غوطہ زن ġota-zan
diver in Malayalam
- മുങ്ങുകാരൻ, വെളളത്തിനടിയിൽ ചെന്നു ജോലിചെയ്യുന്നയാൾ, ഒരു മീൻ റാഞ്ചിപ്പക്ഷി
More languagesFewer languages
- diver in Kannada
- ಮುಳುಕ, ಅಗುಳುಗ
- diver in Sanskrit
- मद्गु madgú
- diver in Assamese
- ডুবাৰু dubaru
- diver in Tagalog
- maninisid
- diver in Arabic
- غَطَّاسٌ ḡaṭṭāsun, غَوَّاصٌ ḡawwāṣun
- diver in Thai
- นักกระโดดน้ำ nák-grà-dòot-náam
- diver in Vietnamese
- thợ lặn
Examples of diver in a sentence
- A neutrally buoyant diver does not need to fin to maintain depth.
- The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.
- The diver did a couple of flips before landing in the pool.
Synonyms of diver
Forms of diver
| plural | divers |
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Origin of diver
From dive + -er.
Words formed from diver
- autem diver
- black-diver
- black-throated diver
- Cartesian diver
- cave diver
- deep diver
- diverless
- dumpster diver
- dumpster-diver
- dun diver
- earth-diver
- free-diver
- graveldiver
- great northern diver
- hell-diver
- muff diver
- muff-diver
- Pacific diver
- paradiver
- pearl diver
- red-throated diver
- ruddy diver
- sand diver
- sat diver
- saturation diver
- scuba diver
- skin-diver
- smoke diver
- spider diver
- sportdiver
- sport diver
- stage diver
- synchronized diver
- web diver
- white-billed diver
Phrases with diver
Words that rhyme with diver
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Questions about diver
- What does diver mean?
- Diver means someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- What is diver in Hindi?
- Diver in Hindi is ग़ोताख़ोर (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (gotākhor). See Diver meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is diver?
- Diver is a noun.
- How do you pronounce diver?
- Diver is pronounced /ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of diver?
- The plural of diver is divers.
Words near diver in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: diver (page history and authors); diver (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); غوطہ زن (Urdu) (page history and authors); diver (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diver (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); मद्गु (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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