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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

独創的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dokusōteki

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Original/əˈrɪdʒ.ɪ.nəl/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼女の作品は非常に独創的だ。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

3 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.

    "The museum managed to preserve the painting in its original frame."
  2. 2

    Created for the first time; novel, inventive, and not copied from something else.

    "Her design for the community center was brilliantly original."
As noun
  1. 1

    The earliest form of something, from which copies may be made.

    "Please submit the document; we need to keep the original on file."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'originalis', stemming from 'origo' meaning 'beginning' or 'source', entering Middle English via Old French in the 15th century. Originally denoting something pertaining to a beginning or source, it evolved to describe things created firsthand or possessing unique character.

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