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# variety

«variety» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **having many different kinds of things, not all the same:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a variety, varieties; countable and uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Variety means having many different kinds of things, not all the same: a menu with variety has lots of choices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#m1)

2) A variety of things is a number of different kinds of them: «a variety of fruit». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#m2)

3) A variety is one particular type of something, especially a type of plant or animal: «a new variety of apple». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#m3)

4) Variety, or a variety show, is entertainment made of many short acts like songs, jokes and magic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it praises change and choice: «variety is the spice of life». In science it names a type within a species, like apple varieties. In maths and data, «a variety of» just means several different ones; it gives no exact number. Stories use it to show a busy, colourful scene. Phrases: «a wide variety of», «a variety of reasons», «for variety», «variety show», «variety pack».

### examples

- The school canteen has a good variety of lunches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x1)
- Granny grows ten varieties of tomato. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x2)
- We read a variety of books this term, from comics to poems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x3)
- For variety, we had pasta instead of rice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x4)
- The talent show was a variety show with singers, dancers and a juggler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x5)
- Variety is the spice of life, so let's try something new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x6)
- The shop sells a wide variety of pens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x7)
- Penguins come in many varieties, from tiny blue ones to huge emperors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x8)
- His daughter Metra, who was devotedly attached to him, possessed the power of transforming herself into a variety of different animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/#x9)

### note

Plural «varieties» (change y to ies). «A variety of + plural noun» usually takes a plural verb: «A variety of birds live here». Adjective: «various» (different kinds); verb: «vary». Trap: «a variety of» does not tell how many in a maths problem; it only says they are different kinds.

### In the corpora

- [Use them for variety, not in every sentence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/7/)
- [Using a fronted adverbial in every sentence makes writing sound clunky; use them for variety.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/22/)
- [A dialect is a variety of a language with its own words and grammar, spoken by a group or in a place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/5/)
- [Laughing at someone's dialect is unkind and also wrong about language: every variety of English has grammar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/17/)
- [In the world, more people speak English as a second language than as a first, in many local varieties.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «variety» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/variety/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.