Other forms: divers
A diver is somebody who goes down under water. A deep-sea diver, a commercial diver, the diver surfaced.
The work ranges from the free diver holding one breath to the saturation diver who lives for weeks in a pressurised chamber to avoid decompressing. In Britain a diver is also a large fish-eating water bird, called a loon in North America.
1noundiverSomebody who goes down under water.
“The diver swam down to look at the wreck on the sea floor.”
diver is a person.
Proto-Germanic
*dūbijaną
Old English
dȳfan — to dip, immerse
Middle English
diven
English
dive
English, today
diver
Built from
From dive + -er. dive comes from Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”) (from Proto-Germanic dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA