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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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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
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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