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Definition of Personal

1. Adjective. Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality. "He has his personal bank account and she has hers"

2. Noun. A short newspaper article about a particular person or group.

3. Adjective. Particular to a given individual.

4. Adjective. Of or arising from personality. "Personal magnetism"

5. Adjective. Intimately concerning a person's body or physical being. "Personal hygiene"

6. Adjective. Indicating grammatical person. "Personal verb endings"

Definition of Personal

1. a. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

2. n. A movable; a chattel.

Definition of Personal

1. Adjective. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general ¹

3. Adjective. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. ¹

4. Adjective. Done in person; without the intervention of another. ¹

5. Adjective. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. ¹

6. Adjective. (grammar) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. ¹

7. Noun. A advertisement by which individuals attempt to meet others with similar interests. ¹

8. Noun. A movable; a chattel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Personal

1. a brief, private notice in a newspaper [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Personal

person of colour person of ordinary skill in the art person of size person to person epidemic persona persona grata persona non grata personability personable personableness

personably personae personae non gratae personage personages personal-computer personal-pronoun personal appeal personal attack personal attacks

personal best personal bests personal business personal care personal chattel personal check personal cheque personal computer personal computers

Literary usage of Personal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"To some of you personal religion, thus nakedly considered, will no doubt seem too incomplete a thing to wear the general name. " It is a part of religion," ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"The stamp duties imposed on legacies, and successions to personal estate upon ... These acts are all framed to apply both to real and to personal property, ..."

3. The Home Library of Law by Albert Sidney Bolles (1905)
"What property is personal 5. Animals; how classified. 6. Ownership of wild animals in natural state. 7. Actions against owners of ferocious animals. 8. ..."

4. A Century of Banking in New York, 1822-1922 by Henry Wysham Lanier (1922)
"He paid taxes in 1815 and 1820 on $10000 personal property. He was New York Director of the Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, 1817, and a Director ..."

5. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1888)
"Of personal identity. THERE are some philosophers, who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF ; that we feel its ..."

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