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individual
English
Alternative forms
- individuall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin ind?vidu?lis, from Latin ind?viduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of ind?viduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + d?viduus (“divisible”), from d?vid? (“divide”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nd??v?d??u.?l/, /??nd??v?d??w?l/, /??nd??v?d???l/, /??nd??-/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nd??v?d????l/, /??nd??v?d???l/, /??nd??-/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /??nd??v?d???.?l/, /??nd??v?d???l/
Noun
individual (plural individuals)
- A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
- (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.
- (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
Translations
Adjective
individual (comparative more individual, superlative most individual)
- Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
- Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
- Not divisible without losing its identity.
Synonyms
- (relating to a single person or thing): single, self-standing
- (intended for a single person or thing): personal, single
Antonyms
- (relating to a single person or thing): collective
- (intended for a single person or thing): group, joint, shared
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- 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.
Catalan
Noun
individual (masculine and feminine plural individuals)
- individual
Derived terms
- individualisme
- individualista
- individualitzar
- individualment
Related terms
- individu
- individualitat
Further reading
- “individual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Adjective
individual m or f (plural individuais)
- individual
Derived terms
- individualismo
- individualista
- individualizar
- individualmente
Related terms
- individuo
- individualidade
Further reading
- “individual” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?.d??i.vi.du.?aw/
Adjective
individual m or f (plural individuais, comparable)
- individual
Derived terms
- individualismo
- individualista
- individualmente
Further reading
- “individual” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
From French individuel
Adjective
individual m or n (feminine singular individual?, masculine plural individuali, feminine and neuter plural individuale)
- individual
Declension
Related terms
- individualism
- individualist
- individualitate
Spanish
Adjective
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 terms
- individualismo
- individualista
- individualizar
- individualmente
- persecución individual
Related terms
- individuo
- individualidad
Noun
individual m (plural individuales)
- place mat
Further reading
- “individual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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character
English
Etymology
From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “type, nature, character”), from ??????? (kharáss?, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k??(?)kt?/, /?kæ?(?)kt?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæ??kt?/
- Hyphenation: char?ac?ter
Noun
character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)
- (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
- (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
- (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- A man of […] thoroughly subservient character
- (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
- (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
- (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
- (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
- (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
- (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
- This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.
- (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
- (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.
Usage notes
Character is sometimes used interchangeably with reputation, but the two words have different meanings; character describes the distinctive qualities of an individual or group while reputation describes the opinions held by others regarding an individual or group. Character is internal and authentic, while reputation is external and perceived.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Pages starting with “character”.
Translations
Verb
character (third-person singular simple present characters, present participle charactering, simple past and past participle charactered)
- (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.
See also
- codepoint
- font
- glyph
- letter
- symbol
- rune
- pictogram
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /k?a?rak.ter/, [k?ä??äkt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka?rak.ter/, [k????kt??r]
Noun
character m (genitive charact?ris); third declension
- branding iron
- brand (made by a branding iron)
- characteristic, mark, character, style
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Hungarian: karakter
- Galician: caritel; ? carácter
- Irish: carachtar
- Italian: carattere
- Old French: caractere
- ? English: character
- French: caractère
- Polish: charakter
- ? Russian: ????????? (xarákter)
- Portuguese: caractere, carácter
- Sicilian: caràttiri
- Spanish: carácter
References
- character in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- character in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- character in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese
Noun
character m (plural characteres)
- Obsolete spelling of caráter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
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