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Definition of Dives
1. n. The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
Definition of Dives
1. Noun. (plural of dive) ¹
2. Verb. (third-person singular of dive) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dives
1. dive [v] - See also: dive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dives
Literary usage of Dives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"4 William was a month at dives, a fortnight after that at St. Valery, and finally
crossed on or ... That brings the muster on the dives to about August 12. ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
"THE PEACE OF dives THE Word came down to dives in Torment where he lay: ...
Rise up, rise up, thou dives, and take again thy gold, " And thy women and thy ..."
3. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1886)
"dives AND LAZARUS A, ' dives and Lazarus.' a. Sylvester's Christmas Carols, p.
50. b. Husk, Songs of the Nativity, p. 94. A BALLET " of the Ryche man and ..."
4. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis (1890)
"When the last patrolman had come in from his beat, all doubt was dispelled by
the brief order " To the Bend ! " The stale-beer dives were the object of the ..."
5. Verses by Hilaire Belloc, Joyce Kilmer (1916)
"TO dives dives, when you and I go down to Hell, Where scribblers end and ...
Then down they go, my wretched dives, down— The fifteen sorts of boots you kept ..."
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