individual
/ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əl/ adjective B1- Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one. · Near-synonyms: individuated, solitary, self-standing, freestanding· As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
- Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person. · individual personal pension· individual cream cakes
- Not divisible without losing its identity. · Near-synonyms: unatomizable, indivisible, undividable
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“When an individual makes his will, it is generally in favor or in prejudice of some person.”
Noirtier’s eye began to dilate, and his eyelids trembled with the same movement that may be perceived on the lips of an individual about to speak, and he darted a lightning glance at Madame de Villefort and his son.
There was yet another individual whose residence under that roof was, it is true, only an intermittent one, but whose presence at the time of the strange happenings which will now be narrated brought his name prominently before the public.
“I wonder what that fellow is looking for?” I asked, pointing to a stalwart, plainly-dressed individual who was walking slowly down the other side of the street, looking anxiously at the numbers.
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