Talk:various

Both determiner and adjective, I'd say.

Determiner

 * 1) A collection of some number of items, that usually represent samples of most sub-type

Adjective
That look a little better Hippietrail? --Connel MacKenzie 16:38, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) A collection of a variety of some thing, usually encompassing most possible variations


 * Well I'm no good at writing defs myself so far be it for me to nitpick. But since you've asked my opinion then I guess I should (:
 * Your determiner def seems very verbose and doesn't convey a clear meaning to me, overall it seems like a definition of a noun.
 * Your adjective definition is much better but I don't think the "most possible variations" bit is true.
 * &mdash; Hippietrail 11:22, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Korean
I rolled back this edit as part of nuking zkg entries per RFD. If it was valid, redo it. - -sche (discuss) 08:48, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Determiner: various of the rules.
PRONOUN: (Informal) several, many, or numerous ones: I spoke with various of them. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:46, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The lake and various of its tributaries has a slightly different meaning from the lake and various tributaries of it; the former makes the scope of the larger set (the lake's tributaries) seem more definite, while the latter implies that its scope is indeterminate, unknown, or unimportant --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:01, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

With apostrophe: various' ?
The British Hansard lists six entries with an apostrophe. Example: " [...] believed, on the authority of professional men, that the steam ships belonging to various' great companies, and employed in the conveyance of the mails over every ocean [...] " Was this genuine usage (whether prescribed or proscribed), or is it merely a glitch in analysing the documents (i.e. no apostrophe in the originals)? The examples seem to convey to me the notion that the following noun/phrase was seen as belonging to the class known as "various". Or maybe an analysis like "companies of variety" → *"variety's companies" → *"various' companies"?? —DIV (49.195.177.247 01:36, 13 December 2021 (UTC))


 * Follow up: I couldn't find it in other corpora.  —DIV (49.195.177.247 09:28, 13 December 2021 (UTC))

Individual
Individual or separate, as in The various arguments all have their strong and weak points. --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:15, 19 March 2022 (UTC)