DIVERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divers mean? 

• DIVERS (adjective)
  The adjective DIVERS has 1 sense:

1. many and different

  Familiarity information: DIVERS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVERS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Many and different

Synonyms:

divers; diverse

Context example:

a person of diverse talents

Similar:

different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)

 Context examples 

So, too, did the Greeks, and divers other ancient peoples who were famed for their learning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Divers can also get decompression sickness, which affects the whole body.

(Barotrauma, NIH)

Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is, the ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again; and he came because men had found a yellow metal in the North, and because Manuel was a gardener’s helper whose wages did not lap over the needs of his wife and divers small copies of himself.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The house-maid alone came here on Saturdays, to wipe from the mirrors and the furniture a week's quiet dust: and Mrs. Reed herself, at far intervals, visited it to review the contents of a certain secret drawer in the wardrobe, where were stored divers parchments, her jewel-casket, and a miniature of her deceased husband; and in those last words lies the secret of the red-room—the spell which kept it so lonely in spite of its grandeur.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How the emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully; how Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on account of those pecuniary liabilities, in reference to which he had been so business-like as between man and man; how Janet, returning into my aunt's service when she came back to Dover, had finally carried out her renunciation of mankind by entering into wedlock with a thriving tavern-keeper; and how my aunt had finally set her seal on the same great principle, by aiding and abetting the bride, and crowning the marriage-ceremony with her presence; were among our topics—already more or less familiar to me through the letters I had had.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They now proceeded to address divers remarks and reproofs to Miss Smith, who was charged with the care of the linen and the inspection of the dormitories: but I had no time to listen to what they said; other matters called off and enchanted my attention.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. Crupp, after holding divers conversations respecting Peggotty, in a very high-pitched voice, on the staircase—with some invisible Familiar it would appear, for corporeally speaking she was quite alone at those times—addressed a letter to me, developing her views.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is nothing smaller than the Crocodile Book, which is in rather a dilapidated condition by this time, with divers of the leaves torn and stitched across, but which Peggotty exhibits to the children as a precious relic.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)