Usually means: Specific, distinct among other things.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word particular:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. particular: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. particular, particular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. particular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. particular: Collins English Dictionary
  5. particular: Vocabulary.com
  6. Particular, particular: Wordnik
  7. particular, the particular: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. particular: Wiktionary
  9. particular: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. particular: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. particular: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. particular: Dictionary.com
  13. particular: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. particular: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Particular: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Particular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. particular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. particular: Rhymezone
  19. particular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. particular: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. particular: Free Dictionary
  22. particular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. particular: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. particular: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. particular: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. particular: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. particular: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. particular: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. particular: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Particular: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
adjective:  Specific; discrete; concrete.
adjective:  Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
adjective:  (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
adjective:  Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
adjective:  (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
adjective:  Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
adjective:  (law) Containing a part only; limited.
adjective:  (law) Holding a particular estate.
adjective:  (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
noun:  A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
noun:  (obsolete) A person's own individual case.
noun:  (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)

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