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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Check out Maria Callas, opera’s defining diva; the genre-spanning genius of Mozart; and 21st-century composers like Caroline Shaw and Thomas Adès.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
Andrea Bocelli made an appearance — and the 2023 person of the year was none other than the multilingual Italian diva, LGBTQ+ advocate and philanthropist Laura Pausini.
—Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
The pop diva was spotted giving classic glam rock in Los Angeles on November 14.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 Nov. 2023
The diva’s memoir is, by definition, a somewhat delusional form, in that its author lives in a very different world from the rest of us, and has a different sense of scale.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
That same year, the don diva turned head with a pink, sharp blunt bang at the MTV Music Awards held in New York City.
—Essence Beauty Editors, Essence, 10 Nov. 2023
Staying in 📖 Love affairs, the diva thing and that nose: Takeaways from Barbra Streisand’s huge memoir.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
Publisher Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, first announced the pop diva’s memoir last year in the aftermath of 2021’s explosive re-contextualization of Spears’s experience in the public eye and the end of her conservatorship.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2023
At the time, Deadline reported her role is a sweet but shy singer with a magical voice who must rise above the jealous, evil pop diva Rose Stellar.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
Andrea Bocelli made an appearance — and the 2023 person of the year was none other than the multilingual Italian diva, LGBTQ+ advocate and philanthropist Laura Pausini.
—Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
The pop diva was spotted giving classic glam rock in Los Angeles on November 14.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 Nov. 2023
The diva’s memoir is, by definition, a somewhat delusional form, in that its author lives in a very different world from the rest of us, and has a different sense of scale.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
That same year, the don diva turned head with a pink, sharp blunt bang at the MTV Music Awards held in New York City.
—Essence Beauty Editors, Essence, 10 Nov. 2023
Staying in 📖 Love affairs, the diva thing and that nose: Takeaways from Barbra Streisand’s huge memoir.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
Publisher Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, first announced the pop diva’s memoir last year in the aftermath of 2021’s explosive re-contextualization of Spears’s experience in the public eye and the end of her conservatorship.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2023
At the time, Deadline reported her role is a sweet but shy singer with a magical voice who must rise above the jealous, evil pop diva Rose Stellar.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
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