Variant Meaning
/ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjShowing variety, diverse.
adjShowing deviation or disagreement.
Sentence Examples
Justine made short work of her opponents in her own personal variant of chess.
There's one more variant.
Kabyle is the variant of the Berber language that I use.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The laboratory discovered a new ____ of the bacterium that was more resistant.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A new ____ of the virus has been identified in several countries, causing a lot of concern among local health experts today.
Word Origin & History
From Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”). First attested in c. 1380.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID."
— 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
"The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants."
— 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297:
"Each member of this group of two or more forms is called a variant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ are variants of the sociolinguistic variable -ing."
— 2014, Kimberly Geeslin, Avizia Yim Long, Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition, page 27:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The laboratory discovered a new ____ of the bacterium that was more resistant.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A new ____ of the virus has been identified in several countries, causing a lot of concern among local health experts today.