Noun: particular
| Singular | particular |
| Plural | particulars |
Sample Sentences
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I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country. [1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 259:]
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Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public[…]or such as concern our particular [1658, Henry Hammond, Whole Duty of Man:]
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When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals. [1912, Bertrand Russel, The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter 9:]
Nouns inflected like particular
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English particuler, from Anglo-Norman particuler, Middle French particuler, particulier, from Late Latin particularis (“partial; separate, individual”), from Latin particula (“(small) part”). Equivalent to particle + -ar. Compare particle. See: Middle English Nouns '
particuler', Latin Nouns '
particula'.
Verbs referencing "particular"
Finnish Nouns
partikulaari.