unique

Definitions


[juːˈniːk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else
(e.g: this discovery was unique in history)


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Origin:
early 17th century: from French, from Latin unicus, from unus ‘one’


[juːˈniːk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a unique person or thing
(e.g: some of Lamb's writings were so memorably beautiful as to be uniques in their class)


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Origin:
early 17th century: from French, from Latin unicus, from unus ‘one’




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