variety

Examples

• All

• More than ninety of his stories have appeared in a variety of literary and commercial magazines.

  Fiction book (1998)

• A beautiful, high-quality yet low-sulphur variety of coal!

  The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

• Yeah, this goes across a variety of global locations.

• Students have developed a wide range of business ideas in a variety of information technology sectors.

  Academic text (2017)

• And humans eat a wide, wide, wide variety of foods.

• It's a perfect emblem of the variety of the empire.

• Other taxa have apparently been acquired from a variety of other forest types.

  Academic text (2011)

• And then there's this vast variety of people, which includes humans.

• In one year, there were more than 29 varieties of waapi from Neligum Village alone.

  Academic text (1999)

• The farmer grows a wide variety of vegetables to sell at the market.

Synonyms

K

kind

vsvariety

∞ 1.0

A type of thing or person that has similar features

is the same idea described as the entry definition rather than a different word

S

sort

vsvariety

∞ 1.0

A kind of thing, for example music or fruit

is the concept stated here not an alternative casual label

T

type

vsvariety

∞ 1.0

A group of things or people that share the same features

is the defined concept here focusing on the shared characteristic

F

form

vsvariety

∞ 1.5

A type of thing, for example a kind of music

focuses on the named group defined by shared characteristic rather than manner

C

category

vsvariety

658 2.7

A group of things or people that have the same features

is the same concept presented as the headword definition here

D

diversity

vsvariety

348 3.5

A range of different people or things

focuses on one group defined by the same characteristic rather than many different elements

R

range

vsvariety

276 2.0

A set of different things of the same kind

refers to a single named group defined by a specific shared quality

A

assortment

vsvariety

36 3.5

A collection of different things, like books or food

describes the single named group sharing a specific quality not a mixed collection

Compounds

G

garden variety

• Informal

20 3.5

Common and not special or unusual

V

variety show

11 3.4

A show made of different short acts like songs, dances, and jokes

V

variety meat

• US

1 7.5

Parts from inside an animal that people eat, like liver or heart

C

common or garden variety

• UK

4.4

Ordinary and not special, like a simple jacket you can buy anywhere

How Specific

strain

• Specialized

131 4.9

breed

82 3.7

type

∞ 1.0

kind

∞ 1.0

variety

128 2.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology