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Original   /ərˈɪdʒənəl/   Listen
Original

adjective
1.
Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.  "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.
3.
Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of.  "With original music" , "An original mind"  Antonym: unoriginal.
4.
Not derived or copied or translated from something else.  "He kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox" , "The translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French"
noun
1.
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made.  Synonyms: master, master copy.
2.
Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies.  Synonyms: archetype, pilot.



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"Original" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet had caught the inspiration of memory, and breathed the very features and air that were stamped already ineffaceably upon a heart too holy for so sullied an idol. She gazed upon the portrait as if it could answer her question of the original; and as she looked and looked, her tears slowly ceased, and her innocent countenance relapsed gradually into its usual and eloquent serenity. Never, perhaps, could Lucy's own portrait have been taken at a more favourable moment, ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... devotedly carry the banner of Shakespeare through the land; but in the main the playhouses of the provinces and great cities of England offer little more than echoes of the London theatres, and such original works as are produced in them generally are mere experiments made on the dog before a piece is presented in London. In this respect, the suburbs resemble the provinces, although Mr J.B. Mulholland courageously makes ...
— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
... Marilyn Loring draw down seventeen hundred a week between them. The director's salary is only two hundred short of that. All told 'The Black Terror' is costing us a hundred thousand dollars over our original estimate. ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... love with it, in his way, as I had done in the Guadalupe woods with the reality. I cannot tell you how much it cost me to restrain my anger. He, however, never noticed I was angry. He had but one object now—to gain from me the name and residence of the original. ...
— Winter Evening Tales • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... imperial predecessors. Their official speech, their official creed, their family system were all foreign to Europe, and many of their ideas of government had been learned in the past from Persia and China, or were derived from the original tribal organization of the true Turks. But if they were neither more nor less Asiatics than the contemporary Russians, they were quite as much Europeans as many of the Greek emperors had been—those of ...
— The Balkans - A History Of Bulgaria--Serbia--Greece--Rumania--Turkey • Nevill Forbes, Arnold J. Toynbee, D. Mitrany, D.G. Hogarth


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