plural divas or dive
ˈdē-(ˌ)vā 
1
a
music
: prima donna sense 1
b
: prima donna sense 2
… if a team asks me to play somewhere else, I'm not going to be a diva about it.—
Ettore Lattanzio
Ettore Lattanzio2
: a usually glamorous and successful female performer or personality (see personality sense 4b)
a fashion diva
especially
: a popular female singer
pop divas
The original diva and Queen Of Soul, Aretha Franklin, appears to have brought US President Barack Obama to tears (and then to his feet) with a stellar performance of (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman … —Tom Williams
Tom Williams 
Examples of diva in a Sentence
the reigning diva of daytime television
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The perfume blends the fragrance of the lily with orange blossom, a vanilla bourbon premium infusion from Madagascar, diva lavender heart, lavandin heart from France and notes of tuberose from India.
—Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Disco diva Donna Summer bought one of her woodcuts.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
Hill, the best player on the team and a bit of a diva, who wants to be the focal point of the offense.
—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
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—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Disco diva Donna Summer bought one of her woodcuts.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
Hill, the best player on the team and a bit of a diva, who wants to be the focal point of the offense.
—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
What follows is one of the most tonally bizarre and genuinely fun movies-about-movies ever made, touching on themes about the monstrosity of artistic genius while also letting Dafoe’s vampire be a diva who snatches a bat out of the air and drains it like a Capri Sun in front of the producers.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Diva.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diva. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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