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various

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/ˈvɛəɹi.əs/UK/ˈvɛəɹi.əs/US/ˈvɛɹi.əs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French varieux, from Latin varius (“manifold, diverse, various, parti-colored, variegated, also changing, changeable, fickle, etc.”). By surface analysis, vary + -ous.

  1. derived from varius
  2. borrowed from varieux

Definitions

  1. More than one (of an indeterminate set of things).

    • Various books have been taken.
    • There are various ways to fix the problem.
    • You have broken various of the rules.

  2. Having a broad range (of different elements).

    • The reasons are various.
    • For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
    • The penalty for the breach of various contracts is scourging with stripes[…]

  3. That varies or differs from others

    That varies or differs from others; variant; different, sundry.

    • a various reading of a Biblical text

The neighborhood

Derived

many and various, various and sundry, variously, various reading

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for various. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA