individual
being or characteristic of a single thing or person
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,225 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,856 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- being or characteristic of a single thing or person also: single individual drops of rainplease mark the individual pages
- separate and distinct from others of the same kind also: case-by-case, item-by-item mark the individual pageson a case-by-case basis
- characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing also: single an individual servingsingle occupancy
- concerning one person exclusively also: private we all have individual carseach room has a private bath
noun
- a human being also: person, someone, somebody, mortal, soul there was too much for one person to do
- a single organism
individual in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Was it in Favoral the private individual?
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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They mourned for her each after her own fashion, and each according to her individual character.
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls · L. T. Meade · Chapter 1
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That must be a pernicious agitation of the circumambient atmosphere, which conduces not to the benefit of any individual.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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The observance or omission of this rite among Roman Catholics, establishes, in a great degeee, the nature of individual character.
The Station · William Carleton · Chapter 1
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Only once, at the initial performance, did this intelligent creature remember its personality, and drop the public actor in the private individual.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1