individual

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 168.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

   He is an unusual individual.

2. noun A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
3. noun An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
4. noun An element belonging to a population.
5. adjective Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.

   As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.

6. adjective Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

   individual personal pension

7. adjective Not divisible without losing its identity.

Similar words

single independent someone separate private singular case-by-case idiosyncratic man-to-man individualistic

Often followed by

and is to or who differences in members has

Word family

individualised individualism individualist individualistic individualists individuality individually individuals