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Definition: DIVES |
DIVESNoun1. The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling. |
Date "DIVES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Dives \Di"ves\, noun. [Latin expression, rich.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Dives (l syl.), Divs or Deevs. Demons of Persian mythology. According to the Koran, they are ferocious and gigantic spirits under the sovereignty of Eblis. "At Lahore, in the Mogul's palace, are pictures of Dews and Dives with long horns, staring eyes,shaggy hair, great fangs, ugly paws, long tails, and such horrible deformity, that I wonder the poor women are not frightened." - William Finch: Purchas' Pilgrims, vol. i. Dives (2 syl.). The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke xvi.). The Latin would be Dives et Lazarus. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Phrase: dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet. |
Money | Phrase: barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives; "but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels"; Gelt regiert die Welt, money makes the world go round; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam; redet Geld so schweigt die Welt; " money is the mother's milk of politics"; money is the root of all evil; money isn't everything; "as phony as a three-dollar bill"; "don't take any wooden nickels". |
Wealth | Rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DIVES |
| English words defined with "DIVES": diver ♦ gannet ♦ humpback, humpback whale ♦ Megaptera novaeangliae ♦ Pearl diver, plunger ♦ spectacular, Steamer duck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DIVES": back dive, back dive layout, backward dive ♦ decompression illness ♦ engineering test pilot ♦ forward dive, front dive ♦ hunter, skin diver ♦ Mermaids ♦ profile flying ♦ reverse dive ♦ salvage diver ♦ UNDERWATER HUNTER-TRAPPER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DIVES": Ditation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DIVES" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (costly, opulent, rich, wealthy). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Free-Falling Body Nose Dives in Desert. Credit: NASA. |  | Swim call! Undaunted by Jaws movies, ALBATROSS IV crewman dives into waters off Menempsha Bight. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Clelia submarine on board Harbor Branch's Sea Diver. This submersible dives to 1,000 meters. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | PHANTOM S2 dives the face of a reef wall. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | MBARI's Ventana frequently dives along the rock walls of Monterey Canyon. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | DELTA can make up to twelve dives to 300 meters in a 12 hr. day. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | PISCES V operated by NURP's Hawaii center dives to 2000 m. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Deep Ocean Engineering's DEEP ROVER one person sub dives to 300 meters. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | ALVIN loaded for sample collection dives in 2500 meters off New Jersey. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | A Japanese "Zeke" airplane dives toward USS Vincennes (CL-64), during an attack on Task Group 58.1 off Okinawa on 6 April 1945. Note anti-aircraft gun smoke and flame trailing aft of the cruiser. Photographed from USS Miami (CL-89). Tracer shells from Miami and from the destroyer in the center are also visible. This plane crashed into the sea astern of Vincennes. Credit: NAVY. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The amount of it is, the imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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James Cameron | Twelve dives. So I've spent more time on Titanic than the crew did, than the captain and the crew did when they were on the ship. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DIVES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 60.42% of the time. "DIVES" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 60.42% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 31.25% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DIVES": dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DIVES": Dives-lazarus. | |
Ending with "DIVES": duck-dives, stage-dives. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DIVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лошият богаташ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 下潜 (Dive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bohatý muž. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | plonge (dive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | taucht (dips, immerses, plunges). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gonosz gazdag ember. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 급강 (Dive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivesday ricaço. (various references) богач (man of property, moneybags, rich, rich man). (various references) bogataš (rich). (various references) den rike mannen. (various references) zengin adam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 13, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Abram de hn plousioV sfodra kthnesin kai arguriw kai crusiw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Erat autem dives valde in possessione argenti et auri |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Displaced: Abram soðlice wæs swyðe welig on golde ond on seolfre ond on orfe ond on geteldum.] [omitted: |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He was forsothe ful riche in possessioun of siluer and of gold. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Abram was very rych in catell syluer and gold. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 13, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Abram dato kaayo sa kahayupan, sa salapi ug sa bulawan. |
| Croatian | Abram je bio veoma bogat stokom, srebrom i zlatom. |
| Danish | Abram var meget rig på kvæghjorde, Sølv og Guld; |
| Dutch | En Abram was zeer rijk, in vee, in zilver, en in goud. |
| Finnish | Abram oli hyvin rikas: hänellä oli karjaa, hopeata ja kultaa. |
| French | Abram était très riche en troupeaux, en argent et en or. |
| German | Abram aber war sehr reich an Vieh, Silber und Gold. |
| Hungarian | Ábrám pedig igen gazdag vala barmokkal, ezüsttel és aranynyal. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Abram kaya raya; ia memiliki domba, kambing, sapi, juga perak dan emas. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka adalah Abram itu amat kaya dengan binatang dan perak dan emas. |
| Italian | Abram era molto ricco in bestiame, argento e oro. |
| Maori | He nui rawa hoki nga kararehe, te hiriwa me te koura ki a Aperama. |
| Norwegian | Og Abram var meget rik på buskap og på sølv og gull. |
| Portuguese | Abrão era muito rico em gado, em prata e em ouro. |
| Rumanian | Avram era foarte bogat kn vite, kn argint, wi kn aur. |
| Spanish | Abram era muy rico en ganado, en plata y en oro. |
| Swedish | Och Abram var mycket rik på boskap och på silver och guld. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DIVES": divest, divested, divesting, divestiture, divestitures, divestment, divestments, divests. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DIVES": endives, gerundives, khedives, nosedives, skydives, updives. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DIVES": postdivestiture. (additional references) | |
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"DIVES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Davex, demves, devas, deve, Devesi, devey, devis, devoes, devs, dievs, difs, diges, dites, divee, divets, divey, divi, divia, divics, divisa, Divock, divox, divs, divus, dovens, dovesse, Duvaz, ives, mdvies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DIVES" (pronounced dī"vz) |
| 3 | -ī" v z | arrives, chives, deprives, derives, drives, fives, hives, knives, revives, Rives, shives, strives, survives, thrives, wives. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vised. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-s-v" | |
-1 letter: devs, dies, dive, ides, side, vide, vied, vies, vise. | |
-2 letters: dev, die, dis, eds, ids, sei, vie, vis. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, es, id, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-s-v" | |
+1 letter: advise, davies, devils, devise, divers, divest, drives, sieved, skived, swived, vespid, videos, visaed, viseed. | |
+2 letters: advices, advised, advisee, adviser, advises, datives, derives, dervish, deveins, devices, devious, devisal, devised, devisee, deviser, devises, devisor, devoirs, dissave, diverse, diverts, divests, divides, divines, divvies, drivels, drivers, endives, invades, revised, savvied, scrived, shrived, skydive, strived, updives, verbids, verdins, vespids, visaged, visited, visored, vistaed, voiders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 56 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ...- . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010110 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I V E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0056 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3843563953 |
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