<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity; varying: variant shades of color.</li><li>not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind.</li><li>not definitive, as a version of part of a text; different; alternative: a variant reading.</li><li>not universally accepted.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that varies.</li><li>a different spelling, pronunciation, or form of the same word: “Vehemency” is a variant of “vehemence.”</li><li>a form of a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism that arises from a strain of the microorganism when a mutation changes a small part of the strain’s genetic code.</li></ul>