英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvɛəɹi.əs/
• (General American, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈvɛəɹi.əs/, (among some speakers) /ˈvæɹi.əs/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈvɛɹi.əs/
• 韻: -ɛəɹi.əs, -æɹi.əs

限定詞

various

1. More than one (of an indeterminate set of things).

   Various books have been taken.

   There are various ways to fix the problem.

   You have broken various of the rules.

形容詞

various (not comparable)

1. Having a broad range (of different elements).

   The reasons are various.

   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.

   • 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization‎, page 114:

     The penalty for the breach of various contracts is scourging with stripes […]

2. (dated) That varies or differs from others; variant; different, sundry.

   a various reading of a Biblical text

同意語

• diverse, manifold, miscellaneous, motley, multifarious, sundry; See also Thesaurus:heterogeneous

反意語

• monotonous

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• “various”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “various”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Saviour, saviour