What unites all people in the world? It's hard to understand right away, isn't it? Probably, they are united by love for variants and synonyms of the last noun. Because everyone would like more choices, and this is an option. Let's consider a variety of life scenarios, but we will focus, of course, on a changing noun.
Origin
Naturally, the word "variant" and its synonyms have existed in the Russian language for so long that this noun is no longer perceived as a borrowed one. But that's the way it is. The word came from French, however, the dictionary does not indicate exactly when this happened. It goes back, of course, to Latin, where varians is “changing”. The very same language chain breaks off at the adjective varius, that is, “different.”
Even without an explanatory dictionary, we can first say that the noun “option” (its synonyms will still fall into the zone of our attention) impliescertain choice. And this applies to everything: work, hobbies, studied phenomena in the world, life. An option is a choice. It may not be worth insisting on this thesis too much, but it is very important to remember it.
Meaning
The origin was not fraught with any mysteries. Linguists have long been accustomed to the fact that many nouns, adjectives and verbs are either of French or Latin origin. There are, of course, those who came to the Russian language from Old Church Slavonic and simply Slavic languages, but now we are not talking about them.
It's time to bring to light the meaning of the word "option":
- Change, variety.
- Inconsistency in the text.
It's honestly hard to understand why the second value was singled out in a separate group. But experts felt that such a move is appropriate. It is difficult to argue with this, one can only suggest that, perhaps, the first value absorbs the second. Although, probably not. In the first case, it means that there are two options for something, two equal opportunities.
When it comes to text, drafts (variants) cannot cancel the final, full-fledged work that the author decided to publish this way and not otherwise. Perhaps this is the difference between the meanings of the noun "option". Consider the synonym after the sentences.
Sentences with the word
The word, on the one hand, is very simple, and on the other, it is ornate. Especially if you look in the explanatory dictionary. For example, are drafts considered options?edition of a novel or poetry? Probably, yes, these are options, but not at all the ones in the test.
To understand the difference for ourselves, let's make sentences and try to show the subtleties of the meaning:
Normally there were four tests, but the teacher was young and enthusiastic, so he brought ten tests
- "Each person thinks about the options for the development of his destiny, especially when he is at the point of a key choice."
- "Collected works, published with versions of certain works of the classic, may be of interest, perhaps, only to specialists and true fans of the author."
The first two sentences illustrate the most common meaning, and the last one - the second semantic content of the noun "option". See below for synonyms for this ornate word.
Synonyms
There are words that immediately come to mind, like "opportunity", "choice". But is there something else? You need to ask the dictionary about it. This is what he claims:
- version;
- revision;
- modification;
- variety.
Unfortunately, that's all, if not repeated. It would seem that such a simple word can have a lot of homogeneous words, but the synonyms of the word “option”, like the whole language as a whole, do not obey a person. Here the choice is small: either take what they give, or leave without taking anything, and this is also a kind of option.
