original
Noun · AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be madeSynonyms: mastermaster copy
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies“this painting is a copy of the original”Synonyms: archetypepilot
Adjective (4)
- preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed“the original inhabitants of the Americas”“the book still has its original binding”“restored the house to its original condition”“the original performance of the opera”“the original cast”“retracted his original statement”
- (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary“his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources”
- being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of“a truly original approach”“with original music”“an original mind”
- not derived or copied or translated from something else“the play is original; not an adaptation”“he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox”“the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French”
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.Origin; commencement; source. [1913 Webster]
It hath it original from much grief.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
2.That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc. [1913 Webster]
The Scriptures may be now read in their own original.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
3.An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals.— C. G. Leland.[1913 Webster]
4.A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
5.(Zool. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum. [1913 Webster]
1.Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. [1913 Webster]
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
2.Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture. [1913 Webster]
3.Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius. [1913 Webster]
4.Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. [1913 Webster]
Original sin (Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism. [1913 Webster]