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NGSL Rank: 584
personal
ˈpəːs(ə)n(ə)l Listen
Meanings
adjective
  • 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
noun
  • an advertisement or message in the personal column of a newspaper.

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