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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Diverse \Di"verse\ (?; 277), a. [The same word as divers. See {Divers}.] 1. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. --J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she --R. Browning. 2. Capable of various forms; multiform. Eloquence is a great and diverse thing --B. Jonson From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Diverse \Di*verse"\, adv In different directions; diversely. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Diverse \Di*verse"\, v. i. To turn aside. [Obs.] The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart --Spenser. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: diverse adj 1: many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" [syn: {divers(a)}] 2: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "diverse parts of the country"; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth" [syn: {various}]
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