資料來源 : pyDict

最初的,原始的;有獨創性的原物,原作,原文

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Original \O*rig"i*nal\, n. [Cf. F. original.]
   1. Origin; commencement; source.

            It hath it original from much grief.  --Shak.

            And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great
            Original proclaim.                    --Addison.

   2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype;
      first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript,
      text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy,
      translation, etc.

            The Scriptures may be now read in their own
            original.                             --Milton.

   3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]

            Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals.
                                                  --C. G.
                                                  Leland.

   4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]

   5. (Zo["o]l. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a
      domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as,
      the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog,
      the blackthorn the original of the plum.

Original \O*rig"i*nal\, a. [F. original, L. originalis.]
   1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all
      others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as,
      the original state of man; the original laws of a country;
      the original inventor of a process.

            His form had yet not lost All her original
            brightness.                           --Milton.

資料來源 : WordNet®

original
     n 1: an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which
          copies can be made [syn: {master}, {master copy}]
     2: an original model on which something is patterned [syn: {archetype},
         {pilot}]

original
     adj 1: preceding all others in time or being as first made or
            performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas";
            "the book still has its original binding"; "restored
            the house to its original condition"; "the original
            performance of the opera"; "the original cast";
            "retracted his original statement"
     2: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something
        intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not
        secondary, sources"
     3: being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being
        as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach";
        "with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: {unoriginal}]
     4: not derived or copied or translated from something else;
        "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the
        original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation
        misses much of the subtlety of the original French"