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• variaunt (obsolete)

From Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”). First attested in c. 1380.

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

• Audio (UK):

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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”.

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. (programming) 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.

   The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.

   • 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

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

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

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “variant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “variant”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

variant

1. gerund of variar

Borrowed from Russian вариант (variant).

• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧ant

variant

1. variant

• “variant”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• IPA^(key): [ˈvarɪjant]

variant

1. genitive plural of varianta

From French variant, variante, from Latin variāns.

• IPA^(key): [vɑiˈanˀd]

variant c (singular definite varianten, plural indefinite varianter)

1. variant

   Synonym: variation

   Coordinate term: varietet

• “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

Declension of variant (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		variant	variandid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	variandi
genitive			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

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

• IPA^(key): /va.ʁjɑ̃/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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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 (feminine variant or variante)

1. varying; which varies

• → English: variant
• French: variant

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

variant c

1. variant

• variera