originals

Noun

original (plural originals)

1. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
   • This manuscript is the original.

   Synonyms:

   prototype

   Antonyms:

   copy, derivative, remake, reproduction, ultimate

2. A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
   • I have a great mind to be in Print; but above all, I would fain be an Original, and that is a true Comical Thought: When all the Learned Men in the World are but Tranſlators, is it not a Pleaſant Jeſt, that you ſhould ſtrive to be an Original! You ſhould have obſerved your Time, and have come into...1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5
3. (archaic) An eccentric person.
   • ‘Are you an alienist?’ I interrupted. ‘Every doctor should be - a little,’ answered that original, imperturbably.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201
4. A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.
   • Fashion Fair will give every section first hand knowledge of the latest originals and 1962-63's exciting trends.1962, “It's Fashion fair time again”, in Ebony, volume 17, number 11, page 126
5. A ridgeling.

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