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Variety

noun

(pl. varieties)

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things. Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord. "He had a variety of disorders" , "A veritable smorgasbord of religions"

Noticeable heterogeneity. Synonyms: diverseness, diversity, multifariousness. "The range and variety of his work is amazing"

(biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics.

A show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances. Synonym: variety show.

A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality. Synonyms: form, kind, sort. "What kinds of desserts are there?"

A difference that is usually pleasant. Synonym: change. "It is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic"

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"Variety" Quotes from Famous Books

... with his genuine ability and honesty, does not in practice destroy Christianity. What he does destroy is the Free-thinker who went before. Free-thought may be suggestive, it may be inspiriting, it may have as much as you please of the merits that come from vivacity and variety. But there is one thing Free-thought can never be by any possibility—Free-thought can never be progressive. It can never be progressive because it will accept nothing from the past; it begins every time again from the beginning; and it goes every time in a different ...

— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton

... secrets of beauty for it to penetrate, because nowhere else has Nature been so profuse in bestowing her multifarious tints or has manifested Life with such triumphal glory of fecundity; nowhere else can be found such a prodigious variety of forms and attitudes or such ineffable ...

— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti

... bats are essentially tropical and the new records here reported, extend the known geographic ranges to the northward on either the east or the west coast of Mexico. Continued collecting, especially by the intensive application of a variety of methods including the use of mist nets, in the northern parts of the zone of tropical vegetation can be expected to yield other species of tropical bats beyond the limits of the ranges now known. Catalogue numbers ...

— Extensions of Known Ranges of Mexican Bats • Sydney Anderson

... make it resemble a well-planted park. Wherever the valley is settled, you will see neat board fences, roomy barns, and farm-houses nestling among trees, and flanked by young orchards. You will not find a great variety of crops, for wheat and barley are the staple products of this valley; and though the farms here are in general of 640 acres or less, there are not wanting some of those immense estates for which California is famous; and a single farmer in this valley is said ...

— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff

... directed to the northeast. In that direction the surface was rolling, with numerous valleys and mountain spurs, but none of the latter was of great height. The towering peaks rose more to the north and west. There was variety and yet sameness in the vast undulating expanse, with its wealth of wood, of rocks, some bleak and dark of color, and others fringed with vegetation, of swelling hills, many of which elsewhere would ...

— Deerfoot in The Mountains • Edward S. Ellis

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