varietist.html - {n.} A program that includes several different kinds of entertainment (as songs, dances, comic skits and little dramas). * /Jane's father was the master of ceremonies of a variety show on TV./

varietist.html - {n.} A store that sells many different kinds of things, especially items that are fairly small and in everyday use. * /I went into a variety store and bought some paint./ * /Five-and-ten cent stores are a kind of variety store./

varietist.html - adj.
1 esp. Bot. & Zool. of, forming, or designating a variety.
2 (of wine) made from a single designated variety of grape.

varietally adv.

varietist.html - n.
a person whose habits etc. differ from what is normal.

varietist.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 diversity; absence of uniformity; many-sidedness; the condition of being various (not enough variety in our lives).
2 a quantity or collection of different things (for a variety of reasons).
3 a a class of things different in some common qualities from the rest of a larger class to which they belong. b a specimen or member of such a class.
4 (foll. by of) a different form of a thing, quality, etc.
5 Biol. a a subspecies. b a cultivar. c an individual or group usually fertile within the species to which it belongs but differing from the species type in some qualities capable of perpetuation.
6 a mixed sequence of dances, songs, comedy acts, etc. (usu. attrib.: a variety show).

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varietist.html - {n.} A program that includes several different kinds of entertainment (as songs, dances, comic skits and little dramas). * /Jane's father was the master of ceremonies of a variety show on TV./