individual
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- individuall (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
| PIE word |
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| *dwóh₁ |
From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(ʊ)əl/, /ˌɪndə-/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊ(ə)l/, /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊ(ə)l/
Audio (US) (file)
NounEdit
individual (plural individuals)
- A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
- He is an unusual individual.
- (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
- 1982, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
- Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […].
- 1982, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
- An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
- 2006, Steven French, “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[1]:
- It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals.
- 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
- In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
- (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
TranslationsEdit
person considered alone
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single human as legal subject
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individual object as contrasted to a class
element belonging to a population
AdjectiveEdit
individual (comparative more individual, superlative most individual)
- Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
- 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
- As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
- Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
- individual personal pension; individual cream cakes
- Not divisible without losing its identity.
SynonymsEdit
- (relating to a single person or thing): single, self-standing
- (intended for a single person or thing): personal, single
AntonymsEdit
- (relating to a single person or thing): collective
- (intended for a single person or thing): group, joint, shared
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
relating to a single person or thing
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intended for a single person
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Further readingEdit
- individual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- individual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- "individual" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 161.
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
individual (masculine and feminine plural individuals)
Derived termsEdit
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Further readingEdit
- “individual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
GalicianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
individual m or f (plural individuais)
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Further readingEdit
- “individual” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: in‧di‧vi‧du‧al
AdjectiveEdit
individual m or f (plural individuais)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “individual” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French individuel.
AdjectiveEdit
individual m or n (feminine singular individuală, masculine plural individuali, feminine and neuter plural individuale)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of individual
| singular | plural | ||||||
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | individual | individuală | individuali | individuale | ||
| definite | individualul | individuala | individualii | individualele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | individual | individuale | individuali | individuale | ||
| definite | individualului | individualei | individualilor | individualelor | |||
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SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
individual (plural individuales)
- individual
- case-by-case
- one-on-one (e.g., relationship or bond)
- one-man (e.g., a one-man show)
- personal, individualized
Derived termsEdit
- cama individual
- individualismo
- individualista
- individualizar
- individualmente
- persecución individual
- trineo individual
Related termsEdit
NounEdit
individual m (plural individuales)
Further readingEdit
- “individual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014