diverse

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Made up of many different kinds of people or things.

   London is a wonderfully diverse city with people from all over the world.

2. 2
   adj

   Very different from one another.

   The course covers topics as diverse as art, history, and physics.

From Middle English diversen (“to differ, diverge; to become different, change; to vary; to change or vary (something); to make a distinction, distinguish; to divert”), from Anglo-Norman diverser, Middle French diverser, and Old French diverser (“to alter, change; to differ, diverge; to disagree”), from Late Latin diversare (“to differ”), and then either: * a frequentative form of Latin dīvertere, the present active infinitive of dīvertō (see etymology 1); or * from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + versāre (the present active infinitive of versō (“to alter, change; to k…

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