diving dress

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   a weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with air; worn by underwater divers

   Synonymsdiving suit

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about diving dress

What does diving dress mean?

diving dress means "a weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with air; worn by underwater divers".

What is another word for diving dress?

Close synonyms include diving suit. 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 diving dress a common word?

diving dress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.