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[ˈpəːsən(ə)l], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- belonging to or affecting a particular person rather than anyone else
(e.g: her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37 million)
- of or concerning one's private life, relationships, and emotions rather than one's career or public life
(e.g: the book describes his sporting career and gives little information about his personal life)
- relating to a person's body
(e.g: personal hygiene)
- of or denoting one of the three persons
- existing as a self-aware entity, not as an abstraction or an impersonal force
(e.g: he rejected the notion of a personal God)
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin personalis ‘of a person’, from persona (see person)
[ˈpəːsən(ə)l], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an advertisement or message in the personal column of a newspaper
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin personalis ‘of a person’, from persona (see person)
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