Usually means: Specific, distinct among other things.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word particular:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. particular: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. particular: Merriam-Webster
  3. particular, particular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. particular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. particular: Collins English Dictionary
  6. particular: Vocabulary.com
  7. Particular, particular: Wordnik
  8. particular, the particular: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. particular: Wiktionary
  10. particular: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. particular: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. particular: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. particular: Dictionary.com
  14. particular: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. particular: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Particular: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Particular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. particular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. particular: Rhymezone
  20. particular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. particular: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. particular: FreeDictionary.org
  23. particular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. particular: TheFreeDictionary.com
  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 (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. particular: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. 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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