dive

1. 1.

   drop steeply

   “the stock market plunged”

   Synonymsplungeplunk

   Broaderdescend

   Narrowerpower-divenosediveduckcrash-divechute
2. 2.

   plunge into water

   “I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool”

   Broadersubmerge

   Narrowerbelly-flopjackknife

   water sport

3. 3.

   swim under water

   “the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells”

   Broaderswim

   Narrowerskin-divesnorkel

Other forms of dive

plural

dives·

past tense or participle

dove

present participle

diving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dive

What does dive mean?

dive means "a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dive?

dive has 1 syllable: dive. In IPA it is /ˈdaɪv/.

What is another word for dive?

Close synonyms include honkytonk, diving, nose dive, nosedive, plunge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dive a common word?

dive is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dive?

1 word rhymes with dive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.