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o⋅rig⋅i⋅nal

  [uh-rij-uh-nl]
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–adjective
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.
–noun
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.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < L orīginālis (adj.) and ML orīgināle original document (n. use of neut. adj.), equiv. to orīgin- (see origin ) + -ālis -al 1

Synonyms:
1. primary, primordial, primeval, primitive, aboriginal. 7. archetype, pattern, prototype, model.

Antonyms:
7. copy.
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o·rig·i·nal   (ə-rĭj'ə-nəl)   
adj.  
  1. Preceding all others in time; first.
    1. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual: an original play, not an adaptation.
    2. Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new: a truly original approach. See Synonyms at new.
  3. Productive of new things or new ideas; inventive: an original mind.
  4. Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.
n.  
  1. A first form from which other forms are made or developed: Later models of the car retained many features of the original.
    1. An authentic work of art: bought an original, not a print.
    2. Work that has been composed firsthand: kept the original but sent a photocopy to his publisher.
  3. A person who is appealingly odd or curious; a character.
  4. Archaic The source from which something arises; an originator.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin orīginālis, from orīgō, orīgin-, source; see origin.]
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Original

O*rig"i*nal\, a. [F. original, L. originalis.]

1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. --Milton.

2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.

4. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.

Original sin (Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism.

Original

O*rig"i*nal\, n. [Cf. F. original.]

1. Origin; commencement; source.

It hath it original from much grief. --Shak.

And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. --Addison.

2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.

The Scriptures may be now read in their own original. --Milton.

3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]

Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. --C. G. Leland.

4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]

5. (Zo["o]l. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
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original  (adj.)
1315, from L. originalis, from originem (nom. origo) "beginning, source, birth," from oriri "to rise" (see orchestra). The first ref. is in original sin "innate depravity of man's nature," supposed to be inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall. The noun, in sense of "original text," is attested from c.1385, from M.L. originale. Of photographs, films, sound recordings, etc., from 1918. Origin first recorded 1563. Originality is first attested 1742, probably after Fr. originalité.
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Main Entry: orig·i·nal
Function: noun
1 : that from which a copy or reproduction is made original> —compare DUPLICATE
2 : a work composed firsthand as the product of an author's creativity
NOTE: A work must be an original in order to obtain a copyright. —original adjective
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