What does "variant" mean?
Variant: Changeable; changing; fickle. [Obs.] He is variant, he abit [abides] nowhere. Chaucer.
Additional senses
- 2.Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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