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Definition of Original

1. Adjective. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed. "Retracted his original statement"

2. Noun. An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made.

3. Adjective. (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary. "His work is based on only original, not secondary, sources"

4. Noun. Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies. "This painting is a copy of the original"

5. Adjective. Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of. "An original mind"

6. Adjective. Not derived or copied or translated from something else. "The translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French"

Definition of Original

1. a. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

2. n. Origin; commencement; source.

Definition of Original

1. Adjective. (not comparable) First in a series or copies/versions ¹

2. Adjective. (not comparable) Newly created ¹

3. Adjective. (comparable) Fresh, different ¹

4. Adjective. (not comparable) Pioneering ¹

5. Adjective. (not comparable) Having as its origin ¹

6. Noun. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived ¹

7. Noun. A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent ¹

8. Noun. (archaic) An eccentric ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Original

1. the first form of something [n -S]

Medical Definition of Original

1. 1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. "His form had yet not lost All her original brightness." (Milton) 2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture. 3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius. 4. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. Original sin, the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; called also total depravity. See Calvinism. Origin: F. Original, L. Originalis. 1. Origin; commencement; source. "It hath it original from much grief." (Shak) "And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim." (Addison) 2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc. "The Scriptures may be now read in their own original." (Milton) 3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. "Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals." (C. G. Leland) 4. A person of marked eccentricity. 5. The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum. Origin: Cf. F. Original. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Original

origamic architecture origamilike origamis origamist origamists origane origanes origans origanums origin

origin of replication originable original (current term) original aspect ratio original research original sin originalism originalist originalists originalities

originality originally originalness originals originary originate originate in

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