singular
Use Singular in a sentence
gyə adjective
1.
extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
2.
unusual or strange; odd; different: singular behavior.
3.
being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique: a singular example.
4.
separate; individual.
5.
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 ).
6.
Logic.
a.
of or pertaining to something individual, specific, or not general.
b.
(of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”
7.
Mathematics.
a.
of or pertaining to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one.
b.
of or pertaining to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.
8.
Obsolete, private.
9.
Obsolete, single.
noun Grammar.
10.
the singular number.
11.
a form in the singular.
00:10
Singular
is always a great word to know.
So is solidus. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: |
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source
|
Link To singular
Collins
World English Dictionary
singular (ˈsɪŋɡjʊlə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 singulāris | |
| 'singularly | |
| —adv | |
| 'singularness | |
| —n | |
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Etymonline
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
American Heritage
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Example sentences
Singular had once the strong meaning that unique has still in accurate but not in other writers.
While odd sounding, this is actually closer to their original state of having more ordinary singular locations.
Perhaps one day the majority will decide that subject and verb need not agree, that a singular subject can take a plural verb.
Despite this, the writer and her father had a singular bond.
Nearby Words
Synonyms
Related Questions
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
