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Meaning of singular

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  singular
      adj 1: unusual or striking; "a remarkable sight"; "such poise is
             singular in one so young" [syn: {remarkable}, {singular}]
      2: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
         hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have
         some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar
         aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about
         this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn:
         {curious}, {funny}, {odd}, {peculiar}, {queer}, {rum},
         {rummy}, {singular}]
      3: being a single and separate person or thing; "can the
         singular person be understood apart from his culture?";
         "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other
         fact and sole of its kind"-William James
      4: composed of one member, set, or kind [ant: {plural}]
      5: grammatical number category referring to a single item or
         unit [ant: {plural}]
      6: the single one of its kind; "a singular example"; "the unique
         existing example of Donne's handwriting"; "a unique copy of
         an ancient manuscript"; "certain types of problems have
         unique solutions" [syn: {singular}, {unique}]
      n 1: the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton [syn:
           {singular}, {singular form}] [ant: {plural}, {plural form}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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