variety

CEFRB1

/vəˈɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A number of different types or kinds of things.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A specific variation of something.

Examples

  • A variety of creatures can be seen under the water.

  • There is a wide variety of patterns to choose from.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /-ɾi/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A deviation or difference.

  2. An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar.

  3. A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level.

More examples

In context

  • You must adapt to a variety of conditions.

  • Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum is a variety of Capsicum annuum commonly known as chiltepin or Indian pepper.

  • Variety is the spice of life.

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Origin

noun

From Middle French varieté (“variety”) (modern French variété (“variety; genre, type”)) or directly from its etymon Latin varietās (“difference; diversity, variety”) + English -ty (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives); by surface analysis, various + -ety. Varietās is derived from varius (“different, diverse, various; variegated”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to abandon; to give out; to leave”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being). The English word displaced the native Old English mislīcnes. Sense 1.3.2 (“total number of distinct states of a system; logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of...