[uh-rij-uh-nl] 
| 1. | belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding. |
| 2. | new; fresh; inventive; novel: an original way of advertising. |
| 3. | arising or proceeding independently of anything else: an original view of history. |
| 4. | capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner: an original thinker. |
| 5. | created, undertaken, or presented for the first time: to give the original performance of a string quartet. |
| 6. | being something from which a copy, a translation, or the like is made: The original document is in Washington. |
| 7. | a primary form or type from which varieties are derived. |
| 8. | an original work, writing, or the like, as opposed to any copy or imitation: The original of this is in the British Museum. |
| 9. | the person or thing represented by a picture, description, etc.: The original is said to have been the painter's own house. |
| 10. | a person whose ways of thinking or acting are original: In a field of brilliant technicians he is a true original. |
| 11. | Archaic. an eccentric person. |
| 12. | Archaic. a source of being; an author or originator. |
| o·rig·i·nal (ə-rĭj'ə-nəl) adj.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin orīginālis, from orīgō, orīgin-, source; see origin.] |
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