variant
English
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Alternative forms
- variaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)
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Noun
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).
- (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.
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Catalan
Adjective
variant m or f (masculine and feminine plural variants)
Noun
variant m (plural variants)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French variant or variante, from Latin variāns.
Pronunciation
Noun
variant m (plural varianten, diminutive variantje n)
- A variant.
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
variant
Adjective
variant (feminine variante, masculine plural variants, feminine plural variantes)
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Further reading
- “variant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) variant
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural varianter, definite plural variantene)
- a variant
References
- “variant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural variantar, definite plural variantane)
- a variant
References
- “variant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Adjective
variant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular variant or variante)
Descendants
Swedish
Noun
variant c
- a variant
Declension
Declension of variant | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | variant | varianten | varianter | varianterna |
Genitive | variants | variantens | varianters | varianternas |
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