Singular (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
  2. unusual or strange; odd; different: singular behavior.
  3. being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique: a singular example.
  4. separate; individual.
  5. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number found in many languages that indicates that a word form has one referent or denotes one person, place, thing, or instance, as English boy and thing, which are singular nouns, or goes, a singular form of the verb go.
  6. Logic.
    • of or relating to something individual, specific, or not general.
    • (of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”
  7. Mathematics.
    • of or relating to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one.
    • of or relating to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.
  8. private.
  9. single.
noun Grammar.
  1. the singular number.
  2. a form in the singular.
adjective
  1. remarkable; exceptional; extraordinary
  2. unusual; odd
  3. unique
  4. denoting a word or an inflected form of a word indicating that not more than one referent is being referred to or described
  5. of or referring to a specific thing or person as opposed to something general
noun
  1. grammar
    • the singular number
    • a singular form of a word
Singular (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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