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Singular

[sing-gyuh-ler]

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adjective

extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.

unusual or strange; odd; different: singular behavior.

being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique: a singular example.

separate; individual.

Grammar. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number found in many languages that indicates that a word form has one referent or denotes one person, place, thing, or instance, as English boy and thing, which are singular nouns, or goes, a singular form of the verb go. Compare dual (def. 4), plural (def. 4).

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Logic.

of or pertaining to something individual, specific, or not general.

(of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”

Mathematics.

of or pertaining to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one.

of or pertaining to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.

Obsolete. private.

Obsolete. single.

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noun Grammar.

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the singular number.

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a form in the singular.

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the symbol (#) used for various purposes.

an exclamation point.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Latin singulāris. See single, -ar¹

Related forms

sin·gu·lar·ly, adverb

sin·gu·lar·ness, noun

su·per·sin·gu·lar, adjective

un·sin·gu·lar, adjective

un·sin·gu·lar·ly, adverb

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un·sin·gu·lar·ness, noun

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Can be confused: single, singular.

Synonyms
1–4. peculiar. 2. bizarre, queer, curious. 3. uncommon, rare. 4. single.

Antonyms
1. usual.

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Example Sentences

Colloquial use is clearly moving toward the singular construction, though, however illogical it may be.

The sources of hatred and violence are many, not singular.

It's the plural and clangs discordantly against the singular verb.

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Colloquial use is clearly moving toward the singular construction, though, however illogical it may be.

The sources of hatred and violence are many, not singular.

It's the plural and clangs discordantly against the singular verb.

Their faces tell stories of faith amid adversity, urban hustle and optimism, and a singular flair for fashion.

For singular stars such as our sun, however, the situation is much trickier.

Her virtuosity and singular style are attracting legions of fans, both mature and teen.

Desulforudis audaxviator is perhaps the one truly singular microbe.

Most of them are apparently driven by the singular vision of a single pastor.

In light of such singular focus on the court, it is a shame his memoir is such a mess.

The album manifests no singular musical vision, but rather, eclecticism.

Each photon probabilistically exhibits the characteristics imparted by the singular emission.

They create memorable movies and singular buildings.

Books are creative endeavors as individual and singular as any work of art.

It was watching her singular exceptionalism with the basketball.

The singular advantage of the euro is its simplicity for commerce.

Beirut puts on an undeniably solid and confident performance and shows a singular band maturing both on record and in concert.

Singular stars shine strong in this infrared image of the same globular cluster.

But no game has truly captured the singular feeling of smacking someone in the face with a piece of your house.

Because that reigning self-expressive singular voice mode of writing ruled too much out.

Unite for one singular cause at a time, and change will come easier.

And the true booty is the camaraderie that comes with joining a select clan of people who step up to such a singular challenge.

Following this, having to address a singular topic with full attention might leave one feeling underutilized or bored.

Cavallaro's singular obsession, however, has long been the wind.

Its several political parties and the maze of their tribal ramifications promised a situation of singular confusion.

It's the singular place where my wildest dreams have been shown a playground for possibility.

They say what makes man so amazing is his singular power for forethought.

Languages also differ in the ways they distinguish between singular and plural nouns.

The bony growth from the back of its head was a singular feature.

Again it is not the singular event that indicates an effect of global warming.

Or perhaps it's because the third-person masculine singular conjugation of the past tense appears identical to the root itself.

These tall, singular landforms are also called pyramidal peaks.

We will never survive unless such a singular religion of human survival evolves.

The need to construct a singular democracy is inherent to the revolution.

Stang was an character actor whose bespectacled, owlish face and nasal urban twang gave him a singular and recognizable persona.

There are two words and either of them can be plural or singular.

No distinction between formal and informal, nor between singular and plural: a lone friend is.

Ranching is the big moneymaker here, lending a singular saddle-meets-surfboard vibe to town.

Use a common color scheme and a grid of frames to unite children's drawings and other artwork for a singular display.

Sometimes though there are creative standouts that are deserving of a singular mention.

And it is easily engaged by sensational singular events, rather than by long-term mundane patterns.

By and large, it has not made singular discoveries--achievements that are its and its alone.

Hu is a singular gender-neutral pronoun used in the chronicle forum.

Results last year were hurt by three, singular factors:.

Lowell, only vegetation can account for their singular fluctuations.

Once you've got the basic steering down, your gameplay experience hinges on the development of a singular skill.

And that was an interesting way of looking at the world, where a singular force was in charge.

Certain combinations of clothing might stand out even if no singular item does.

But the disaster highlights the country's somewhat awkward reliance on a singular national treasure with limited access routes.

From a wide range of professions, they have one thing in common: devotion to a singular ambition.

Next you'll allow plural pronouns with singular antecedents.

Fay himself will be somewhere else, continuing his own singular sort of prospection at his own pace and scale.

The leaders are self-appointed, hold singular authority to determine right and wrong and stand in absolute judgement of everyone.

At the risk of usurping the pedant's position--hum is the singular object pronoun that replaces him or her.

Point out that the word is the same in both the singular and plural forms.

Acting on this instinct and seeing the world give up its secrets was my singular delight in platform games.

But the sensibility, the tone, is plural rather than singular.

Instead he punted on one of the singular business issues of our time.

Create a list of other words in the story for which the singular and plural forms are the same.

Capturing the minutiae serves a singular purpose: winning over an audience already obsessed with the intricacies of sports.

But its singular history has been a curse as much as a blessing.

They might find our singular ideas inappropriate for them.

Instead, the conductor frequently provides feedback for the singular purpose of improving student.

The singular focus on travelling long, indirect routes is also a little misleading.

It's a partnership built out of a singular vision to bring accessible computing to children all over the world.

The result was a singular visual style that shifts radically in crucial moments of the film.

Our race's singular characteristic is zeal for destroying the real for the unreal.

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World English Dictionary

singular (ˈsɪŋɡjʊlə)

—*adj*
1.	remarkable; exceptional; extraordinary: a singular feat
2.	unusual; odd: a singular character
3.	unique
4.	denoting a word or an inflected form of a word indicating that not more than one referent is being referred to or described
5.	logic of or referring to a specific thing or person as opposed to something general

—n
6.	grammar
	a. the singular number
	b. a singular form of a word

[C14: from Latin singulārissingle]

'singularly

—*adv*

'singularness

—n

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Word Origin & History

singular

mid-14c., "alone, apart," from O.Fr. singuler "single, separate" (Fr. singulier), from L. singularis "single, solitary," from singulus (see single (adj.)). Meaning "remarkably good, unusual, rare" is from c.1400, though this was a common meaning of L. singularis.

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Cultural Dictionary

singular definition

In nouns, pronouns, and verbs, the grammatical form that refers to only one thing. In the following sentence, the singular words are italicized: “The police officer stops anyone who crosses before the light changes.” (Compare plural; see agreement.)

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