individual
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
Inflected forms:
form: individuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: individuall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more individual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most individual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: individuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
pos: noun
examples: He is an unusual individual.
“You have to be an individual,” said Ms. Smoke, a 40-year-old saleswoman, as she sipped her beverage. “You can’t just get black coffee.”
gloss: A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […].
gloss: An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
pos: noun
examples: It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals.
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.
gloss: An element belonging to a population.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: individuated, solitary, self-standing, freestanding
As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
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.
gloss: Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
pos: adj
examples: individual personal pension
individual cream cakes
gloss: Not divisible without losing its identity.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: unatomizable, indivisible, undividable
Derived words: bioindividual
extraindividual
individualise
individualism
individualistic
individual item picking
individuality
individualization
individualize
individually
individual medley
individualness
individual psychology
individual pursuit
individual sport
individual time trial
individual voluntary arrangement
induhvidual
interindividual
intraindividual
nonindividual
subindividual
superindividual
supraindividual
transindividual
unindividual
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: individual
lang: Azerbaijani
word: fərdi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şəxsi
lang: Belarusian
word: асо́бны
roman: asóbny
lang: Belarusian
word: аддзе́льны
roman: addzjélʹny
lang: Belarusian
word: асабі́сты
roman: asabísty
lang: Belarusian
word: індывідуа́льны
roman: indyviduálʹny
lang: Bulgarian
word: отделен
roman: otdelen
lang: Bulgarian
word: индивидуален
roman: individualen
lang: Catalan
word: individual
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 單個 /单个
roman: dāngè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 獨個 /独个
roman: dúgè
lang: Czech
word: jednotlivý
lang: Danish
word: individuel
lang: Dutch
word: individueel
lang: Finnish
word: yksittäinen
lang: French
word: individuel
lang: Galician
word: individual
lang: Georgian
word: ინდივიდუალური
roman: individualuri
lang: German
word: einzeln
lang: German
word: individuell
lang: German
word: Einzel-
lang: Hungarian
word: egyes
lang: Hungarian
word: egyedi
lang: Hungarian
word: különálló
lang: Italian
word: singolo
lang: Italian
word: specifico
lang: Japanese
word: 個々の
roman: koko-no
lang: Latin
word: indīviduālis
lang: Māori
word: takitahi
lang: Eastern Mari
word: шке
roman: ške
lang: Norman
word: îndividuel
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: enkelt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: individuell
lang: Old English
word: ānlīepe
lang: Polish
word: indywidualny
lang: Polish
word: oddzielny
lang: Polish
word: pojedynczy
lang: Portuguese
word: individual
lang: Romanian
word: individual
lang: Russian
word: отде́льный
roman: otdélʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: индивидуа́льный
roman: individuálʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: едини́чный
roman: jediníčnyj
lang: Russian
word: ча́стный
roman: částnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: air leth
lang: Spanish
word: individual
lang: Swedish
word: enskild
lang: Turkish
word: bireysel
lang: Ukrainian
word: особи́стий
roman: osobýstyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: індивідуа́льний
roman: indyviduálʹnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: осі́бний
roman: osíbnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: окре́мий
roman: okrémyj
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bir nəfərlik
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bir nəfər üçün nəzərdə tutulmuş
lang: Bulgarian
word: личен
roman: ličen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 個別 /个别
roman: gèbié
lang: Czech
word: individuální
lang: Finnish
word: yksilöllinen
lang: Hungarian
word: egyéni
lang: Italian
word: individuale
lang: Italian
word: personale
lang: Latin
word: proprius
lang: Russian
word: персона́льный
roman: personálʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: ли́чный
roman: líčnyj
lang: Spanish
word: propio, personal
lang: Spanish
word: personal
lang: Swedish
word: individuell
lang: Thai
word: เฉพาะตัว