DIVOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divot mean? 

• DIVOT (noun)
  The noun DIVOT has 2 senses:

1. (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke

2. a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)

  Familiarity information: DIVOT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot

Hypernyms ("divot" is a kind of...):

cavity; pit (a sizeable hole (usually in the ground))

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("divot" is a kind of...):

greensward; sod; sward; turf (surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

 Context examples 

Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool as if a divot from a green golf links had come sailing in at the office window but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)