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diversity
English
Etymology
From Middle English diversite, from Old French diversité, from Latin d?versit?s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /da??v??(?)s?ti/, /d??v??(?)s?ti/
Noun
diversity (countable and uncountable, plural diversities)
- The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
- A variety; diverse types or examples.
- (chiefly business) equal-opportunity inclusion
- 2003, Adalberto Aguirre, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in America: A Reference Handbook (page 72)
- Bakke has shaped a precarious context for diversity initiatives in higher education. On the one hand, the U.S. Supreme Court has reasoned that race may serve a purpose in the admissions process; however, race may not be used as a corrective measure, such as by establishing quotas.
- 2003, Adalberto Aguirre, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in America: A Reference Handbook (page 72)
Synonyms
- (quality of being diverse or different): See also Thesaurus:nonuniformity
- (diverse types or examples): selection
Derived terms
- antidiversity
- diversity fatigue
Related terms
- diverse
- divert
- divers
Translations
diversity From the web:
- what diversity means
- what diversity means to me
- what diversity and inclusion means to me
- what diversity means to me essay
- what diversity is not
- what diversity and inclusion means
- what diversity do you bring
- what diversity in the workplace
contest
English
Etymology
From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?n.t?st/
- (US) enPR: k?n't?st, IPA(key): /?k?n.t?st/
- Rhymes: -?nt?st
Verb
- (UK, US) enPR: k?nt?st', IPA(key): /k?n?t?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
contest (countable and uncountable, plural contests)
- (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
- Synonyms: controversy, debate, discussion
- (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
- Synonyms: battle, combat, fight
- (countable) A competition.
- Synonyms: competition, pageant
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
contest (third-person singular simple present contests, present participle contesting, simple past and past participle contested)
- (intransitive) To contend.
- Synonyms: compete, contend, go in for
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory
- (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
- Synonyms: call into question, oppose
- Antonym: support
- 1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century
- Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
- (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
- (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
- Synonym: controvert
Translations
Anagrams
- Consett, Cottens
contest From the web:
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- what contest did kelly clarkson win
- what contest in hell did i win
- what contest did brunelleschi win
- what contestants are left on the masked singer
- what contestants are left on dancing with the stars
- what contestants are still on the voice
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