Usually means: Different form of something existing.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word variant:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. variant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. variant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. variant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. variant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. variant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Variant, variant: Wordnik
  7. variant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. variant: Wiktionary
  9. variant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. variant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. variant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. variant: Dictionary.com
  13. variant (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. variant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Variant (disambiguation), Variant (logic), Variant (magazine), Variant (novel), Variant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Variant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. variant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. variant: Rhymezone
  19. Variant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. variant: Free Dictionary
  21. variant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. variant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Variant (disambiguation), variant: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. variant: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. Variant (disambiguation), variant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Variant (disambiguation), variant: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Variant: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. variant: The Folk File
  2. variant: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Variant: Backgammon

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Showing variety, diverse.
adjective:  Showing deviation or disagreement.
adjective:  (obsolete) Variable.
adjective:  (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.
noun:  Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
noun:  (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
noun:  (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
noun:  (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.

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