A talented but imperious female performer. Originally used to describe opera starts, the word is now commonly applied to female performers in virtually any medium.
Celine Dione demands mint flavoured toothpicks in her dressing room at every performance...what a diva!
by balbulican July 17, 2004
Also known as a prima donna ("first lady"), and especially in an opera. Refers to the leading lady of the production. The male counterpart is the divo. Plural, including male and female singers, is "divi" (DEE-vee), or, if just female singers, "dive" (DEE-vay).
Also refers to a bratty, demanding, self-centered person, regardless of whether they're a performer or not.
Also refers to a bratty, demanding, self-centered person, regardless of whether they're a performer or not.
Here comes our diva, the spinto soprano Catarina Cassotto... and our divo, the lyric tenor Roberto Daza
Britney Spears- there's a diva. What a bitch!
Britney Spears- there's a diva. What a bitch!
by Lorelili July 02, 2005
Determined Individual Valuing Accomplishments.
A woman who appreciates everything achieved in life's past knowing that it only adds to who they will become in life's future.
A woman who appreciates everything achieved in life's past knowing that it only adds to who they will become in life's future.
by Kia Diva September 08, 2006
the female version of a hustla, of a of a hustla.
A succesful and glamourus female preformer who has achieved popularity.
A succesful and glamourus female preformer who has achieved popularity.
by kamerran February 11, 2009
Beyonce: "Na, na, na, diva is a female version of a hustla."
Chris: "That woman know how to gain some. She a hustla."
Belinda: "Yo man, she a diva!"
Chris: "That woman know how to gain some. She a hustla."
Belinda: "Yo man, she a diva!"
by avowtostay February 02, 2009
irritating buzzword used by major record labels and media outlets on a slow news day to describe female singers (songs of which are usually prepared by the same three writers) whose musical releases usually consist of the same generic pap and the mainstay of whose audience tends to be depressed housewives who fantasize that the lyrics are about them.
chanteuse is another such buzzword. It should be mentioned that the Canadian corporate media will not hesitate to use said word on front page, even if a bomb has gone off at the U.N. or leprosy has infected the British royal family, to describe irritating women singers such as celine dion, to promote such singers as proud embodiments of Canadiana, despite the fact that if the Canadian populace was forced to sit through a Celine Dion or shania twain concert, twenty percent of Canadians would attempt suicide.
chanteuse is another such buzzword. It should be mentioned that the Canadian corporate media will not hesitate to use said word on front page, even if a bomb has gone off at the U.N. or leprosy has infected the British royal family, to describe irritating women singers such as celine dion, to promote such singers as proud embodiments of Canadiana, despite the fact that if the Canadian populace was forced to sit through a Celine Dion or shania twain concert, twenty percent of Canadians would attempt suicide.
Harry picked up a copy of today's Toronto Star. The small text adjacent to the page listing read "FERGIE 5TH LEPER VICTIM". This seemed like an interesting story...but as he flipped over the paper to read its headline he was confronted by a full-colour protrait of that Quebecois monstrosity with the headline in size-40 type: DIVA DION TOPS. He shook his head. Another slow news day.
by maks August 16, 2004
by polkadotshorts January 13, 2010