When you buy a car from its original owner, you know it's only been owned by one person. Original means "the very first."
Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine;
Noun
an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
Noun
an original model on which something is patterned
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
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
Adjective
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"
Adjective S.
(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources"
a.
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.
a.
Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine;
as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of
Scripture.
a.
Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations
of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
a.
Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of
original matter.
n.
Origin; commencement; source.
n.
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.
n.
An original thinker or writer; an originator.
n.
A person of marked eccentricity.
n.
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.
Original
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness.2.
Original
It hath it original from much grief.
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.2.
The Scriptures may be now read in their own original.3.
Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals.4.
Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine;
Origin; commencement; source.
Usage Examples
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
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Other Usage ExamplesArt owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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