PECULIAR
\pɪkjˈuːli͡ə], \pɪkjˈuːliə], \p_ɪ_k_j_ˈuː_l_iə]\
Definitions of PECULIAR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf
By Princeton University
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Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
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Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.
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That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
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A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
By Oddity Software
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Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
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Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.
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That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
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A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
By Noah Webster.
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One's own; as, my peculiar property; not owned in common: as, an idiom is an expression peculiar to one language; individual; strange; queer.
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Peculiarly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Peculiarly.
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One's own: appropriate: particular: strange.
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PECULIARITY.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One's own; solely or specially belonging to; singular; special.
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Exclusive property; a particular parish or church which has the probate of wills. The Court of Peculiars, a court exclusively belonging to the Archbishop of Cauterbury.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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