variant

• variaunt (obsolete)

Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).

• (UK) enPR: vâr'ē-ənt, IPA^(key): /ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvæɹi.ənt/, /ˈvɛɹi.ənt/

variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)

1. Showing variety, diverse.
2. Showing deviation or disagreement.
3. (obsolete) Variable.
4. (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.

• time-variant

variant (plural variants)

1. 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”.

2. (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.

3. (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
4. (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, 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.

• variance
• variation
• vary

• alternate
• alternative

• nativar

Borrowed from Latin variantem. First attested in 1839.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bə.ɾiˈan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [və.ɾiˈant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [va.ɾiˈant]

variant m or f (masculine and feminine plural variants)

1. varying

variant m (plural variants)

1. variant

• variar

• “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.

variant

1. gerund of variar

Borrowed from Russian вариант (variant).

• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧ant

variant

1. variant

• “variant”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

variant c (singular definite varianten, plural indefinite varianter)

1. variant

• “variant” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “variant” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from French variant or variante, from Latin variāns.

• IPA^(key): /ˌvaː.riˈɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧ant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

variant m (plural varianten, diminutive variantje n)

1. a variant

• variante

• variabiliteit
• variabel
• variatie
• variëren
• variëteit

• → Indonesian: varian

• “variant” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from German Variante.

variant (genitive variandi, partitive varianti)

1. variant, variety, version (a specific variation of something)

   Synonyms: teisend, versioon

2. option (one of a set of choices that can be made)

   Synonyms: alternatiiv, võimalus

• “variant”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “variant”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “variant”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• variant in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• IPA^(key): /va.ʁjɑ̃/

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variant

1. present participle of varier

variant (feminine variante, masculine plural variants, feminine plural variantes)

1. varied, which varies; variable

• variabilité
• variable
• variation

variant m (plural variants)

1. mutation, variant (of a virus)

• “variant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

variant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of variō

From Latin varians.

variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural varianter, definite plural variantene)

1. a variant

• “variant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin varians.

variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural variantar, definite plural variantane)

1. a variant

• “variant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

variant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular variant or variante)

1. varying; which varies

• → English: variant
• French: variant

From French variante, attested from 1779.^[1]

variant c

1. variant

• variera