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sin⋅gu⋅lar

  [sing-gyuh-ler]
Use singular in a Sentence
–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.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < L singulāris. See single, -ar 1

Related forms:
sin⋅gu⋅lar⋅ly, adverb
sin⋅gu⋅lar⋅ness, noun

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

Antonyms:
1. usual.
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sin·gu·lar   (sĭng'gyə-lər)   
adj.  

  1. Being only one; individual.

  2. Being the only one of a kind; unique.

  3. Being beyond what is ordinary or usual; remarkable.

  4. Deviating from the usual or expected; odd. See Synonyms at strange.

  5. Grammar

    1. Of, relating to, or being a noun, pronoun, or adjective denoting a single person or thing or several entities considered as a single unit.

    2. Of, relating to, or being a verb expressing the action or state of a single subject.

  6. Logic Of or relating to the specific as distinguished from the general; individual.

n.   Grammar

  1. The singular number or a form designating it.

  2. A word having a singular number.


[Middle English singuler, from Old French, from Latin singulāris, from singulus, single; see single.]
sin'gu·lar·ly adv., sin'gu·lar·ness n.
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Cultural Dictionary

singular

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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Word Origin & History

singular 
c.1340, "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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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