individual
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
individual/ɪndɪˈvɪʤuəl/
▶adjective
- 1 single; separate.
- 2 of or for a particular person.
■ designed for use by one person.
- 3 striking or unusual; original.
- 1 a single human being or item as distinct from a group.
■ informal a person of a specified kind: a most selfish, egotistical individual.
- 2 a distinctive or original person.
– derivatives
individualization (or individualisation) noun,
individualize (or individualise) verb,
individually adverb.
individualization (or individualisation) noun,
individualize (or individualise) verb,
individually adverb.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘indivisible’): from med. L. individualis, from L. individuus, based on dividere ‘to divide’.
'individual' also found in these Oxford entries:
academy
- ad personam
- allotment
- androgyne
- anonymous
- Asiatic
- ASP
- at
- atman
- autograft
- autologous
- autotransplantation
- Bantu
- bitwise
- blog
- bud
- carrier
- caste
- cause
- character
- class action
- cocotte
- collective unconscious
- collectivism
- common noun
- communitarianism
- comparative advantage
- conformation
- Congregationalism
- counter
- crate
- crime
- crystallite
- customize
- dariole
- DDos
- defendant
- dentition
- detail
- distinct
- distribute
- distributive
- dividend
- doxastic
- drupel
- egocentric
- every
- existentialism
- facet
- facies
