# different

Pronunciation: say "DIF-uh-ruhnt" /ˈdɪ.fə.ɹənt/

## Adjective

1. Not the same; showing a difference when compared with something else.
   - Simple: Not the same as another person or thing.
   - _The two reports reached different conclusions about the cause._
   - _Her accent sounds different from the rest of her family._
2. Distinct and separate; of various kinds, often used after numbers or words like many and several for emphasis.
   - Simple: Separate and not the same one. Of many kinds, as in 'six different people'.
   - _The museum displays artifacts from many different cultures._
   - _She speaks several different languages fluently._
3. Unlike most others; out of the ordinary or unusual.
   - Simple: Not like most others, strange or special in some way.
   - _The restaurant offers something genuinely different from the usual chains._
   - _She wanted a different sort of birthday, so they went camping instead._

## Adverb

4. In a manner that is not the same; differently. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: In a way that is not the same.
   - _Kids today talk different than we did at their age, and that is fine._
   - _They do things different over on the coast._

## Other meanings

- (noun) In algebraic number theory, an ideal associated with an extension of number fields that measures the ramification within it.

## Origin

This word entered Middle English from Old French different, which came from Latin differēns, the present active participle of differō ('I differ'). It replaced the native Old English word ungelic, the source of modern 'unalike'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/different (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).