Hypertext Webster Gateway: "original"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Original \O*rig"i*nal\, n. [Cf. F. original.]
1. Origin; commencement; source.
It hath it original from much grief. --Shak.
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great
Original proclaim. --Addison.
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.
The Scriptures may be now read in their own
original. --Milton.
3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]
Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals.
--C. G.
Leland.
4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]
5. (Zo["o]l. & 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Original \O*rig"i*nal\, a. [F. original, L. originalis.]
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.
His form had yet not lost All her original
brightness. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
original
adj 1: 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"
2: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something
intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not
secondary, sources"
3: 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" [ant: {unoriginal}]
4: 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"
n 1: an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which
copies can be made [syn: {master}, {master copy}]
2: an original model on which something is patterned [syn: {archetype},
{pilot}]
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