2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, inRAIL, number948, page 6:
Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicronvariant of COVID.
(linguistics,lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
The word "kerosine" is avariant of “kerosene”.
2012, James Lambert, “BeyondHobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, inWorld Englishes[1], page297:
The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive ofvariants.
2014, Kimberly Geeslin, Avizia Yim Long,Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition[2], page27:
Each member of this group of two or more forms is called avariant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ arevariants of the sociolinguistic variable-ing.
“variant”, in[PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2014
“variant”, in[EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2009
“variant”, in[ÕS]Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2018,→ISBN
