Dives
pronunciation
How to pronounce Dives in British English:
UK [ˈdaivz]
How to pronounce Dives in American English:
US [ˈdaɪˌviz]
Word Origin
- Dives
- traditional name for a rich man, late 14c., from Latin dives "rich (man);" see Dis. Used in Luke xvi in Vulgate and commonly mistaken as the proper name of the man in the parable. Related to divus "divine," and originally meaning "favored by the gods" (see divine (adj.)).
Example
- 1. I saw turtles , sharks , and huge fish while I was on my dives .
- 2. An international agreement signed by britain and the us designates the titanic as an international memorial and seeks to protect it from being plundered or damaged by unauthorised dives .
- 3. The same is true with drastic dives in markets .
- 4. Typically these immense creatures , the world 's largest fish , traveled directly to and from the surface and spent very little time at the deepest portion of their dives .
- 5. Whale sharks that make lengthy dives into the cold ocean depths to forage tend to spend a lot of time at the surface warming up afterward , a new study suggests .