Dives

//ˈdaɪvz// name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of dive form-of, plural
  2. 2
    A rich person who lives in luxury.
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of dive form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The rich man in the biblical parable of the rich man and Lazarus.

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plungeabateablateacrobaticsaerobaticsalehouse

Example

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"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."

Etymology

From Latin dives (“rich man”).

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