diversとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈdaɪvə(ɹ)z/
• 韻: -aɪvə(ɹ)z

名詞

divers

1. plural of diver

語源 2

See diverse.

別の表記

• diuers (obsolete)

発音

• IPA: /ˈdaɪvɜː(ɹ)z/, /ˈdaɪvə(ɹ)z/
• 韻: -aɪvə(ɹ)z

形容詞

divers (comparative more divers, superlative most divers)

1. Archaic form of diverse, in the sense of various or assorted.
   • 1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society.‎, volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:

     Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:24:

     And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 8:

     But to-night, the third rainy evening of three rainy days, every flower in the divers china bowls, cups, vases, was withered; the harp was out of tune with the damp; and Emily betook herself to the leafy labyrinth of a muslin flounce, la belle alliance of uselessness and industry.

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112:

     Divers plans and numerous devices were tried to stop the leakage.

   • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:

     Shortly after this I had to go out of town. Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.

   • 1949, William Dale Morris, The Christian Origins of Social Revolt, page 25:

     One of the most formidable of the heretical movements of the Middle Ages was Lollardy or Lollery. The Lollard movement was made up of divers elements, [...]

   • 1951 December, “Notes and News: Overland to Iraq”, in Railway Magazine, page 854:

     Nevertheless, a good Turkish meal was enjoyed in the merry company of Customs men and divers gaily-caparisoned officials.

派生語

代名詞

divers

1. (archaic or literary) An indefinite number (at least two).
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Tubal: There came divers of Antonio’s creditors in my company to Venice that swear he cannot choose but break.

使用する際の注意点

When used as a pronoun, divers functions as a plural and takes a plural verb.

アナグラム

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