Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you say that there are ~ things, you mean there are several different things of the type mentioned.
The school has received ~ grants from the education department.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
If a number of things are described as ~, they are very different from one another.
The methods are many and ~.
...the country’s rich and ~ heritage.
= varied
ADJ