diverse

B1 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /daɪˈvɝs/ UK /daɪˈvɜːs/ See IPA manual

Freq #15919

Meanings

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

adj
Very different from one another.

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

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Synonyms

1 adj · made up of many different... various

2 adj · very different from one... different dissimilar unlike

Word family

Derived forms antidiversebiodiversediversdiversativediversely diversenessdiversitudegeodiversehyperdiversemegadiversemicrodiversemultidiverse

Related forms diversity divert

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Phrases (1)

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diverse population
a group of residents or inhabitants with varied backgrounds or characteristics

Adjective + noun

Etymology

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…

diversen Middle English diverser Middle French diversare la-lat dīvertere Latin

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# diverse

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /daɪˈvɝs/
**IPA (UK):** /daɪˈvɜːs/
**Frequency rank:** 15919

## Meanings
1. Made up of many different kinds of people or things.
2. Very different from one another.

## Examples
- London is a wonderfully diverse city with people from all over the world.
- The course covers topics as diverse as art, history, and physics.

## Derived Forms
- antidiverse
- biodiverse
- divers
- diversative
- diversely
- diverseness
- diversitude
- geodiverse
- hyperdiverse
- megadiverse
- microdiverse
- multidiverse

## Related Forms
- diversity
- divert

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: diversen
- Root: diverser
- Root: diversare
- Root: dīvertere

## Etymology
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…

## AI Etymology
Diverse comes 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.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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