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variety
Part of speech: NounA collection of unlike objects; an individual differing in some details from others of the same general class or kind; a sort; in biology, the group of next lower rank than a species; lack of sameness.
Part of speech: AdjectiveVarietal.
Usage examples "variety":- Save on the east, where there rises a line of hills just high enough to catch the lovely lights of evening and give colour and variety to the landscape, the prospect is monotonous in every direction. - "Impressions of South Africa", James Bryce.
- In the room of the mistress of the house whence I have just come, a fire was still blazing in which a variety of objects had been burned. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
- From these circumstances combined, we are induced to give his opinions on a variety of points. - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.