diver

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun someone who works underwater
noun someone who dives (into water)
noun large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes

From dive + -er.

Was it Shingebis the diver? — The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This diver didn’t see us. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne
The diver did not see us. — Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne

frogman, underwater diver

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