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English Dictionary: Original	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
original adj 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" (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" 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" Antonym(s): unoriginal 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 an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made Synonym(s): master, master copy, original something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; "this painting is a copy of the original" Synonym(s): original, archetype, pilot
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Original \Orig"inal\, 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Original \Orig"inal\, 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[94]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.