how to pronounce diverse

/daɪˈvɝs/

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diverse is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of diverse in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… to the most diverse number of birds …”

meanings of diverse

adjective:

Belonging to a minority group.
Capable of various forms; multiform.
Composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics in terms of, for example, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc., and having a sizeable representation of people that are minorities in a given area.
Different; dissimilar; distinct; not the same.
Consisting of many different elements; various.

adverb:

In different directions; diversely.

diverse frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word diverse occurs in english on average 16.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics diverse can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that diverse can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;