noun
- A human being.
- usage: "there was too much for one person to do"
- A single organism.
adjective
- Being or characteristic of a single thing or person.
- usage: "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
- synonyms: single
- Separate and distinct from others of the same kind.
- usage: "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis"
- synonyms: case-by-case, item-by-item
- Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing.
- usage: "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed"
- synonyms: single
- Concerning one person exclusively.
- usage: "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath"
- synonyms: private
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