various
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
various/ˈveəriəs/
▶adjective different from one another; of different kinds or sorts.
■ having or showing different properties or qualities.
▶determiner & pronoun more than one; individual and separate: various people arrived late.– derivatives
variously adverb,
variousness noun.
variously adverb,
variousness noun.
usage: The use of various as a pronoun followed by of (various of her friends had called) is sometimes regarded as incorrect, although words such as several and many are used in a similar way (several of her friends had called) without comment.
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agar
- albatross
- allophone
- aloe
- art
- assorted
- astral
- Bach flower remedies
- balsam
- bezoar
- bittern
- blood group
- bluebell
- box
- brown
- butterfish
- carpenter trousers
- chai
- chat
- chat show
- cheat grass
- China rose
- cinchona
- collage
- colon
- composition
- conidium
- construct
- core
- corporative
- Coxsackie virus
- creosote
- currant
- dammar
- deer fly
- degree
- devil
- dim sum
- dragon
- Earl Marshal
- eclectic
- elder
- emanation
- emir
- encephalography
- equipartition
- ergot
- Eurostar
- fat
- flavour
