Definitions for original

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original o·rig·i·nal

Spelling: [uh-rij-uh-nl]

IPA: /əˈrɪdʒ ə nl/

Original is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in original (agiilnor).

Definitions for original

noun

1. a primary form or type from which varieties are derived.
2. an original work, writing, or the like, as opposed to any copy or imitation:
3. the person or thing represented by a picture, description, etc.:
4. a person whose ways of thinking or acting are original:
5. Archaic. an eccentric person.
6. Archaic. a source of being; an author or originator.

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning:
2. new; fresh; inventive; novel:
3. arising or proceeding independently of anything else:
4. capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner:
5. created, undertaken, or presented for the first time:
6. being something from which a copy, a translation, or the like is made:

Origin of original

1300-50; Middle English Latin orīginālis (adj.) and Medieval Latin orīgināle original document (noun use of neuter adj.), equivalent to orīgin- (see origin) + -ālis

Examples for original

He who is parted from God has no original nothingness with which to take refuge.

His character was so open, that I did not need to correct my original conception of it.

Obviously, not all the original cast can come back or even have the desire.

Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.

The original owners of these farms had moved into Egypt years and years ago.

Still another of the original seven stood in the immediate vicinity.

This etext was prepared from the original 1821 edition and the 1948 edition.

Yes, the original Bond, as imagined by Ian Fleming, was obviously white.

It was original in how it treated Nixon and his connection to the right before 1968.

The source code for the original “Shamoon” malware is widely known to have leaked.