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say it: dahy-VUR-zhuhn
diversion is a noun meaning "an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates". It carries 3 recorded senses.
an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates
“scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists”
“for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles”
“drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation”
a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
“a diversion from the main highway”
“a digression into irrelevant details”
“a deflection from his goal”
an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diversion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.