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particular

Pronunciation: /pəˈtɪk.jʊ.lə/

The English word “particular” has 13 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
  2. Specific; discrete; concrete.
  3. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
  4. Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
  5. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
  6. Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
  7. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
  8. Containing a part only; limited.
  9. Holding a particular estate.
  10. Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.

noun

  1. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
  2. A person's own individual case.
  3. A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)

Etymology

From Middle English particuler, from Anglo-Norman particuler, Middle French particuler, particulier, from Late Latin particularis (“partial; separate, individual”), from Latin particula (“(small) part”). Equivalent to particle + -ar. Compare particle.

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