Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
Specific; discrete; concrete.
I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.
From Middle English particuler, from Anglo-Norman particuler, Middle French particuler, particulier, from Late Latin particularis (“partial; separate, individual”), from Latin particula (“(small) part...
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A person's own individual case.
Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.
A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.
When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals.