variant
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- variaunt (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)
- Showing variety, diverse.
- Showing deviation or disagreement.
- (obsolete) Variable.
- (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.
TranslationsEdit
showing variety, diverse
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showing deviation or disagreement
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variable — see variable
NounEdit
variant (plural variants)
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
- All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.
- The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
- 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.
- (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 297:
- The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
- 2014, Kimberly Geeslin and Avizia Yim Long, Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition[2], page 27:
- 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.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
something slightly different
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genetics: different sequence of a gene
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computing: variable that can hold several data types
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin variāns, attested from 1839.[1]
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
variant (masculine and feminine plural variants)
NounEdit
variant m (plural variants)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “variant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further readingEdit
- “variant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “variant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “variant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
variant c (singular definite varianten, plural indefinite varianter)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of variant
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | variant | varianten | varianter | varianterne |
| genitive | variants | variantens | varianters | varianternes |
Further readingEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French variant or variante, from Latin variāns.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
variant m (plural varianten, diminutive variantje n)
- A variant.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: varian
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from German Variante.
NounEdit
variant (genitive variandi, partitive varianti)
- variant, variety, version (a specific variation of something)
- option (one of a set of choices that can be made)
- Synonyms: alternatiiv, võimalus
DeclensionEdit
Declension of variant (type riik)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | variant | variandid |
| genitive | variandi | variantide |
| partitive | varianti | variante / variantisid |
| illative | varianti / variandisse | variantidesse / variandesse |
| inessive | variandis | variantides / variandes |
| elative | variandist | variantidest / variandest |
| allative | variandile | variantidele / variandele |
| adessive | variandil | variantidel / variandel |
| ablative | variandilt | variantidelt / variandelt |
| translative | variandiks | variantideks / variandeks |
| terminative | variandini | variantideni |
| essive | variandina | variantidena |
| abessive | variandita | variantideta |
| comitative | variandiga | variantidega |
Further readingEdit
- variant in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
- variant in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
- variant in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
- variant in Sõnaveeb
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
ParticipleEdit
variant
AdjectiveEdit
variant (feminine variante, masculine plural variants, feminine plural variantes)
Related termsEdit
NounEdit
variant m (plural variants)
Further readingEdit
- “variant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
variant
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural varianter, definite plural variantene)
- a variant
ReferencesEdit
- “variant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural variantar, definite plural variantane)
- a variant
ReferencesEdit
- “variant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old FrenchEdit
AdjectiveEdit
variant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular variant or variante)
DescendantsEdit
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French variante, attested from 1779.[1]
NounEdit
variant c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of variant | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | variant | varianten | varianter | varianterna |
| Genitive | variants | variantens | varianters | varianternas |
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ variant in Svensk ordbok.