/vair'ee awr"euhm, -ohr"-/ , adj.
1. containing different versions of the text by various editors: a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
2. containing many notes and commentaries by a number of scholars or critics: a variorum text of Cicero.
n.
3. a variorum edition or text.
[ 1720-30; short for L editio cum notis variorum edition with the notes of various persons ]