Definitions for divan

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divan di·van

Spelling: [dih-van, -vahn or especially for 1, dahy-va

IPA: /dɪˈvæn, -ˈvɑn or especially for 1, ˈdaɪ væn/

Divan is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in divan (adinv).

Definitions for divan

noun

1. a sofa or couch, usually without arms or back, often usable as a bed.
2. a long, cushioned seat, usually without arms or back, placed against a wall, as in Asian countries.
3. a council of state in Turkey and other countries of the Middle East.
4. any council, committee, or commission.
5. a council chamber, judgment hall, audience chamber, or bureau of state. a large building used for some official or public purpose, as a custom house.
6. a smoking room, as in connection with a tobacco shop.
7. a collection of poems, especially a collection in Arabic or Persian of poems by one poet.

adjective

1. sliced and baked in a casserole with broccoli and hollandaise sauce.

Origin of divan

1580-90; Turkish Persian dīwān, orig. dēvan booklet (whence account book, office, council, bench)

Examples for divan

"That is correct," I said, sinking back into the cushions of the divan.

Whereupon Khalid rises and sits on the divan near the Padre.

On a divan the motion for rejection was carried by 178 to 136.

As to Steiner, he would sleep on the divan in the drawing room.

Marlon Brando yelled at the audience about dead children from a divan clad in a purple muumuu.

There on the divan she had cried, leaning her head against his sleeve.

I carried her to the divan, and went to look for him, but he was not in the house, and the servants were gone to bed.

He grovelled on the divan heavy in thought and with pendent arms.

Wilhelmine rose from the divan on which she had been reclining.

He lay face downward on the divan, in the dark, and he did "think it all over."