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original (adjective), more original, most original
1. Relating to something preceding all the others (not comparable): It was important for the lawyer to have the original will, and not a copy of it.
2. Fresh, new, different: The cookbook presented many original recipes with various herbs.
3. Concerning potato chips: Lynn wanted to buy the original kind of potato chips only with salt and not other type of favouring.
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(Greek: original [first in time], beginning, first cause, origin, ancient, primitive, from the beginning; most basic)
(Greek authentikos > Latin authenticus: original, genuine, authoritative; one who does something himself or herself)
(Latin: to rise, arising, to be born, source, original; the rising sun, east; to ascend, to spring up, to become visible, to appear)
(Greek: original, ancient, primitive, old)
(Greek: first; foremost, front, earliest form of, original, primitive; chief, principal; usually used as a prefix)
(Latin: the fasting [intestine], the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum [so named because early anatomists typically found this organ to be empty in dissection]; original meaning, "hungry, not partaking of food")
(Latin words directly incorporated into English which are essentially without changes from their original spelling)
(Latin: spot, mark, stain, blot, blemish, mesh; the original meaning of macula seems to have been, "a soiled spot, a spot to be cleaned")
(the mosquito is the original skin diver)
(original skin diver)
(Greek > Latin: to beat, to strike; a blow; a dent, an impression, a mark, original form; a mold; a figure, an image, a form, a kind)
(Latin: animating, enlivening; vigorous, vigor, active; to be alive, activity, to quicken; then a quickening action of growing; a specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb, or root" is first recorded in 1767; the differences between the meanings from its original links with "life, liveliness" was completed in the early twentieth century, when vegetable came to be used for an "inactive person".)
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original founder
This entry is located in the following unit: Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (page 15)
original source
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