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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sin•gu•lar /ˈsɪŋgyəlɚ/USA pronunciation adj. - Grammarof or belonging to the grammatical category of number indicating that a word refers to or names one person, place, thing, or instance, such as child, it, or goes.
- extraordinary;
remarkable;
exceptional:a singular success. - unusual or strange:singular behavior.
n. - Grammar the singular number:[uncountable]The word "pants'' is never in the singular; it always takes a plural verb.
- Grammar[countable] a word or other form in the singular:What is the singular for the plural word addenda ?Abbr.: sing.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sin•gu•lar (sing′gyə lər),USA pronunciation adj. - extraordinary;
remarkable;
exceptional:a singular success. - unusual or strange;
odd;
different:singular behavior. - being the only one of its kind;
distinctive;
unique:a singular example. - separate;
individual. - Grammarnoting or pertaining to a member of the category of number found in many languages that indicates that a word form has one referent or denotes one person, place, thing, or instance, as English boy and thing, which are singular nouns, or goes, a singular form of the verb go. Cf. dual (def. 4), plural (def. 4).
- Philosophy[Logic.]
- of or pertaining to something individual, specific, or not general.
- (of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as "Socrates was mortal.''
- Mathematics
- of or pertaining to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one.
- of or pertaining to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.
- [Obs.]private.
- [Obs.]single.
n. [Gram.] - Grammarthe singular number.
- Grammara form in the singular.
- Latin singulāris. See single, -ar1
- Middle English 1300–50
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged –4. peculiar.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bizarre, queer, curious.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged uncommon, rare.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged single.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged usual.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: singular /ˈsɪŋɡjʊlə/ adj - remarkable; exceptional; extraordinary: a singular feat
- unusual; odd: a singular character
- unique
- denoting a word or an inflected form of a word indicating that not more than one referent is being referred to or described
- of or referring to a specific thing or person as opposed to something general
n - the singular number
- a singular form of a word
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin singulāris singleˈsingularly adv |