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Plural of dive

regular plural

The plural of dive is dives.

Forms of dive

Singulardive /daɪv/
Pluraldives /ˈdaɪvz/
Countablecountable

Dives in a sentence

  • Google says this lets AI Mode recommend more diverse sources, produce deeper answers to more complex queries, dives deeper – and you have the ability to ask follow-up questions.2025 June 13, Thomas Germain, “Is Google about to destroy the web?”, in BBC
  • It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife.From the entry jack-knife
  • Considering their previous experience of more than 80 logged dives each, the crew obliged.2026 July 28, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Open Water True Story: How Tom and Eileen Lonergan Were Left Behind at Sea”, in Skip Boring, archived…. From the entry oblige
  • A transmedium drone flies out of water and then dives into water.2021 July 21, :How China’s flying submarine drone could change sea battles", in South China Morning Post. From the entry transmedium
  • She ended up in one of those low dives along Temple Street in Yaumati.2016, David T. K. Wong, “A Dusty Road”, in Collected Hong Kong Stories, Blacksmith Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 178. From the entry Yaumati

Meaning of dive

  1. verb To swim under water.
  2. verb To jump into water head-first.
  3. verb To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.

Full definition of dive

Questions about the plural of dive

What is the plural of dive?
The plural of dive is dives.
Is dive countable?
Dive is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dive (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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