variety.
A deviation or difference.
Meaning & usage
A deviation or difference.
A specific variation of something.
A specific variation of something. An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar.
A specific variation of something. An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar. A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.
Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum is a variety of Capsicum annuum commonly known as chiltepin or Indian pepper.
A specific variation of something. A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level.
A specific variation of something. A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced.
A collection or number of different things.
A collection or number of different things. In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
A collection or number of different things. Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).
A collection or number of different things. The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
Ellipsis of variety performance or variety show (“a type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.”).
The quality of being varied; diversity.
Variety is the spice of life.
The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁wh₂-s-? Proto-Indo-European *-yos Proto-Indo-European *-yós ▲ Proto-Italic *-jōsinflu. Proto-Italic *-jos Proto-Italic *wasios? Latin varius Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin varietās Middle French varietéder. ▲ Latin varietās ▲ Latin -tās Old French -tebor. Middle English -te English -ty English variety From Middle French varieté (“variety”) (modern French variété (“variety; genre, type”)) or directly from its etymon Latin varietās (“difference; diversity, variety”) + English -ty (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives); by surface analysis, various + -ety. Varietās is derived from varius (“different, diverse, various; variegated”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to abandon; to give out; to leave”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being). The English word displaced the native Old English mislīcnes. Sense 1.3.2 (“total number of distinct states of a system; logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system”) was coined by the English psychiatrist William Ross Ashby (1903–1972) in his work An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956). Cognates * Galician variedade (“variety”) * Italian varietà (“difference; variety”) * Portuguese variedade (“variety”) * Spanish variedad (“breed; variety”)
Try it on your idea.
variety has 7 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.