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Definition: Personal |
PersonalAdjective1. Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers". 2. Particular to a given individual. 3. Of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism". 4. Intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene". 5. Indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings". Noun1. A short newspaper article about a particular person or group. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "personal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Personal \Per"son*al\, adjective. [Latin personalis: compare to French personnel.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | Mention figurant sur une enveloppe. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PEC | English | Personal equipment connector | Post & Telecom, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Antonym: impersonal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Description | Narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals; (chronicle); saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana, trait. |
Immateriality | Personal, subjective, nonobjective. |
Mankind | Adjective: human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social; cosmopolitan; anthropoid. |
Property | Personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage. |
Security | Promissory note; bill, bill of exchange; I.O.U.; personal security, covenant, specialty; parole; (promise). |
Speciality | Adjective: special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular; (exceptional); idiomatic; idiotypical; typical. |
Substantiality | Adjective: substantive, substantial; hypostatic; personal, bodily, tangible; (material); corporeal. |
Superiority | Noun: superiority, majority; greatness; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility; (rank); Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackajack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Personal Injury (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) This isn't personal, Kay. This is business (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo) And to prove it, I have not gotten personal, and you have (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) Miss Truvy, I promise that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) Don't take it personal. He never touched me and I'm closer to him than anyone in the world, known him for nine years (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) | |
Lyrics | I'm not your personal whore, that's not what I'm here for (U.N.I.T.Y.; performing artist: Queen Latifah) I'm you personal pro, you know (Been It; performing artist: The Cardigans; writing credit: Persson, Svensson) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if you don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is. (references; author: unknown) You work for a defense contractor if you write your personal letters in vu-graph format. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Marked Personal (1973) A Personal History of the Australian Surf (1971) Personal and Confidential (1965) Don't Get Personal (1942) Personal Hygiene (1941) | |
Song Titles | Don't Take It Personal (Just One Of Dem Days) (performing artist: Monica) | |
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Pictured are rows of artificially sweetened sodas on a grocery shelf with a "saccharin warning label" in front of them. The legal banning of artificially sweetened products was prevented by consumer pressure. FDA warning labels are on such products and the consumer must make a personal decision about using these products containing saccharin. In 1997 the FDA was considering taking saccharin off the list of possible carcinogens. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | In remote areas with little human habitation, the most appropriate action may be to post signs on the roads entering the epizootic area to warn people, and provide information on personal protection and plague prevention. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | A dome for talking to the surface and other divers. It is called a personal talk station or PTS. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ![]() | Left to right: Dr. Louet, medical doctor to the Prince; H. Bouree; J. Richard; L . Tinayre; M. Malglaive; A. Ranc; and A. Fuhrmeister, personal secretary to the Prince. Plate IV, print 4. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Companions on the voyage to Spitzberg. From bottom to top: J. Richard; F. Baraduc, the medical doctor; H. Neuville, a naturalist; A. Fuhrmeister, personal secretary to the Prince; Lovatelli, an artist and painter; W. S. Bruce, polar explorer. Plate VIII, print 1. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Senior Airman John Hill, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo., performs a quick, personal damage assessment during the low crawl obstacle of the Fitness Challenge during Defender Challenge 2000 here Oct. 30. Defender Challenge is the annual Air Force-wide compet. |
![]() | Kristy York, NRCS Soil Conservationist in Audubon County, Iowa, uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a personal digital assistant (PDA) to record natural resource data in the field for the National Resources Inventory. Credit: Lynn Betts. | ![]() | NRCS Hydrologist Laurel Foreman uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) and personal digital assistant (PDA) to record status of a Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) filter strip planting in Cass County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
![]() | NRCS Engineer Jeffrey Godwin uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a personal digital assistant (PDA) to record status of an in-stream conservation structure built with emergency conservation program funds in Cass County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. | ![]() | Scientific test by FSIS personal. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Up Close & Personal 2" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Many of you have asked to know the identity of my model in the Retro Man series. He's my son, user: Omek. Please, as a courtesy, would you let me know if you use this image? Thank you." | "Greeny" by Keith M. Commentary: "My eye up close and personal." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
| Hair dryer; blow dryer; personal appliance; blower; hot air. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Smith | Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. |
Amos Bronson Alcott | A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. |
Aristotle | Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. |
Author Unknown | Private bravery is often the price of personal victory. |
Edward Gibbon | Personal interest is often the standard of our belief, as well as of our practice. |
Gay | The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment. |
Norman O. Brown | I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. |
Remy De Gourmont | The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws. |
Walt Whitman | Nothing endures but personal qualities. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It has resolved personal worth into exchange value. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Compensation may be claimed from Germany under Article 232 above in respect of the total damage under the following categories: (l) Damage to injured persons and to surviving dependents by personal injury to or death of civilians caused by acts of war, including bombardments or other attacks on land, on sea, or from the air, and all the direct consequences thereof, and of all operations of war by the two groups of belligerents wherever arising. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The treaties of 1815 regarded him as a personal offence |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But you will tell me about the new personal experience and new terminology some other day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Your peak flow zones are based on your personal best peak flow number. (references) | |
How much information to seek and how to deal with it are personal matters. (references) | ||
Green Zone (80 to 100 percent of your personal best) signals good control. (references) | ||
Business | In Pakistan, business is carried on personal contacts. (references) | |
Another healthcare provider in Beijing offers personal evacuations. (references) | ||
Saudi businessmen prefer to conduct their business on a very personal level. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Guatemala | A Government-sponsored Freedom of Information Law which would establish an ombudsman's office to defend the right to freedom of information, including the ability to petition the Government for personal records and other information, languished in the FRG-dominated Congress at year's end. (references) |
Korea | Only members of a very small elite have vehicles for personal use. (references) | |
Croatia | Ethnic Serbs requiring personal documentation to return or regularize their status continued to experience delays and contradictory requests from local officials. (references) | |
Economic History | Kuwait | Kuwait levies no personal income tax. (references) |
Netherlands | Promotion is carried out by catalog or by newspaper advertisements with no personal contact. (references) | |
Hong Kong | Initial sales require more face-to-face contact as Asians generally place a premium on developing personal connections. (references) | |
Human Rights | Chad | These groups reportedly were not allowed access to military prisons, and their access to civilian prisons depended greatly on the personal inclinations of judges and prison administrators. (references) |
Moldova | If charged a suspect may be released on personal recognizance pending trial. (references) | |
Mauritania | The approval and publication in June of the new Personal Status code created a written framework to regularize the prevailing Shari'a-based family law, which without defining legislation had been applied unfairly. (references) | |
Minorities | Canada | Despite personal meetings and other overtures by Quebec's Premier to aboriginals and the English-speaking community, both groups remain distrustful of the separatist government of Quebec. (references) |
Burma | Ethnic minority areas that were remote from active insurgent operations, such as the large Karen areas of Irrawaddy Division, experienced tighter controls on personal movement, including more frequent military checkpoints, closer monitoring by military intelligence, and larger military garrisons, and hence more informal taxes, than comparable Burman areas. (references) | |
Kuwait | While some discrimination based on religion reportedly occurs on a personal level, most observers agree that it is not widespread. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cote D'ivoire | As is generally true in the region, the business environment is one in which personal contact and connections remain important and where the rule of law does not always prevail. (references) |
THE BAHAMAS | Capital and profits are freely repatriated, and the Bahamian government does not tax personal and corporate income. (references) | |
JAPAN | The maximum marginal rate for personal income taxes was also reduced from 65 percent to 50 percent. (references) | |
Political Rights | Turkmenistan | In 1999 the Government changed the national oath to require that citizens swear personal allegiance to President Niyazov in particular, rather than just to the presidency as a general institution. (references) |
Senegal | Access to personal identification cards was an important issue in the election, since they are necessary to vote. (references) | |
Haiti | It is common for political appointees to use their positions for personal enrichment. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Checks (cheque): While bank checks offer security in transactions, (since the bank issuing the check needs the guarantee of the transfer to issue it), personal checks do not offer enough guarantees against commercial risk as the bank does not guarantee the funds in the account of the person issuing the check. (references) |
Nigeria | Previously, imports valued less than USD 1,000 and imports classified as personal effects were exempt from pre-shipment inspections. (references) | |
Nigeria | The guidelines stipulate that all imports regardless of value, whether containerized or not, including accompanied personal effects, shall be subject to pre-shipment inspection. (references) | |
Travel | Brazil | Compared to the United States, the pace of negotiation is slower and is based much more on personal contact. (references) |
Canada | US business travelers to Canada should be sensitive to cultural and language differences and allow adequate time for the development of personal contacts in business dealings. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Costa Rican business executives place great importance on personal contact with foreign suppliers. (references) | |
Women | Egypt | In January 2000, the Parliament passed a new Personal Status Law that made it easier for a Muslim woman to obtain a divorce without her husband's consent, provided that she is willing to forego alimony and the return of her dowry. (references) |
Tunisia | The 1956 Personal Status Code outlawed polygamy. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Women occupied 39 percent of director slots, up from 28.8 percent in 1997. The adjudication of personal status law in the areas of marriage and divorce is left to religious courts, in which Jewish and Muslim women are subject to restrictive interpretations of their rights. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Qatar | It is not observed with respect to unskilled laborers and domestic and personal employees, all of whom, with scant exception, are foreigners. (references) |
Philippines | Regional wage board orders cover all private sector workers except domestic servants and other persons employed in the personal service of another person. (references) | |
Russia | A flat 13 percent personal income tax, which became effective January 1, appeared to reduce incentives of enterprises not to report actual wages; tax collection increased in nominal terms by 36 percent during the first 11 months of the year. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply -- the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | My personal assistant screwed up. |
House Minority Whip David Bonior | That's not personal. It's taking on the Republican Party and their policies. And, you know, Bush and Cheney are oil folks and, I mean, I think that's a fair thing to go after. |
John Hartmann | Very close. I talked to him once or twice or three times a week. I'm a professional agent and personal manager and throughout my career and I helped him make his choices on who was going to be his helpers in his career and what to do and what not to do. |
Jon Stewart | Sir, absolutely, and it is my personal mission to find a satisfactory replacement, a performer of character, a performer of honor. |
Karl Lagerfeld | Then I don't have to make an effort because I see my personal taste based on silent movies, German expressionism, and a little tougher, harsher thing. |
Naomi Campbell | I mean, you know, I've received some stuff from Jennifer Lopez, from her line, and I just like casual things you know. That's what I like to wear on my time off, on my own personal time. |
Rush Limbaugh | The whole modus operandi of the Democratic Party is the politics of personal destruction. |
Senator Patrick Leahy | I'd hold a hearing. We'd have a completely fair hearing. Justice Scalia is a longtime personal friend. We'd have that hearing, and I'd determine after the hearing. |
Tom Ridge | Well, I hope I get a chance to come out here. I have had the opportunity to deal and talk to some of the folks involved in the planning. And if my schedule permits and I get a little personal time, maybe I'll get a chance to see out here. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | To ascertain in all cases whether the original claimant is living and this by actual personal inspection. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Higher objects than personal aggrandizement gave direction and energy to their exertions in the late canvass, and they shall not be disappointed. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Labor's interest is very direct and personal because working conditions, wages, and prices affect the very life and happiness of the worker and his family. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | A President does not shape a new and personal vision of America. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | There are powerful personal reasons I want to end this war. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Bit by bit we are chopping down the thicket of unnecessary Federal regulations by which Government too often interferes in our personal lives and our personal business. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | That's what one of my personal heroes, Hank Aaron, has done all his life. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Personal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Personal" is used about 17,603 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 17,603 | 530 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Personal Group Holdings P.L.C. | USA | Personal Diagnostics, Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "personal": add a personal touch ♦ Agartha Personal Life Balancing Program ♦ become personal ♦ emergency notification and personal security ♦ keep a personal record of smth. ♦ Kofutu Personal Energy Matrix Healing ♦ lack of personal responsibility ♦ make a personal call ♦ multimedia Personal Computer ♦ obtaining personal data without authorisation ♦ personal access to communications systems ♦ personal account ♦ personal action ♦ personal adjustment training ♦ personal affairs ♦ personal allowance ♦ personal appeal ♦ personal assets ♦ personal assistant ♦ personal belongings ♦ personal business ♦ personal call ♦ personal care ♦ personal care home ♦ personal characteristics ♦ personal charm ♦ personal chattel ♦ personal check ♦ personal cheque ♦ personal code number ♦ personal column ♦ personal Communication Network ♦ personal communication services ♦ personal communication system ♦ personal communications service ♦ personal communications services ♦ personal computer ♦ personal Computer Memory Card International Association ♦ personal computer/cluster analysis and regression program ♦ personal computers ♦ Personal Construct Theory ♦ personal consumption ♦ personal contact ♦ personal conviction ♦ personal credit line ♦ personal data ♦ personal delivery ♦ personal description ♦ personal details ♦ personal Digital Assistant ♦ personal digital assistants ♦ personal dose ♦ personal effects ♦ personal equation ♦ personal equipment ♦ personal equipment connector ♦ personal estate ♦ personal expense ♦ personal favor ♦ personal file ♦ personal foul ♦ personal friend ♦ personal guarantee ♦ Personal Health Services ♦ personal hygiene ♦ personal idea ♦ personal Identification Number ♦ personal identity ♦ personal income ♦ personal information ♦ personal injury ♦ personal interest ♦ personal judgement ♦ personal judgment ♦ personal letter ♦ personal liability insurance ♦ personal liberty ♦ personal life ♦ personal line of credit ♦ personal loan ♦ personal luggage ♦ personal luxury ♦ personal magnetism ♦ personal manner ♦ personal matter ♦ personal memory ♦ personal name ♦ Personal Narratives [Publication Type] ♦ personal needs ♦ personal opinion ♦ personal organizer ♦ personal persuasion ♦ personal position ♦ personal pronoum ♦ personal pronoun ♦ personal property ♦ personal question ♦ personal register ♦ personal reintegration budget ♦ personal relation ♦ personal relationship. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "personal": personal-computer, personal-equity, personal-impersonal, personal-income, personal-income-tax, personal-injury, personal-interest, personal-investment, personal-social, personal-tax, personal-weapons. | |
Ending with "personal": inter-personal, non-personal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
personal | 13,467 | free personal ads | 644 |
personal loan | 7,824 | black personal | 634 |
personal check | 5,127 | personal bankruptcy | 590 |
personal ad | 4,781 | personal firewall | 580 |
personal finance | 3,609 | personal health | 560 |
personal loan for bad credit | 2,685 | personal training | 545 |
yahoo personal | 1,615 | personal goal | 544 |
personal trainer | 1,447 | personal fitness | 527 |
personal watercraft | 1,415 | personal leasing uk | 482 |
personal page | 1,068 | personal statement | 456 |
web personal | 968 | personal injury lawyer | 447 |
personal injury | 935 | gay personal | 429 |
free personal | 889 | personal care | 426 |
personal computer | 874 | uk personal loan | 420 |
personal web site | 860 | personal loan online | 418 |
personal web page | 848 | adult personal | 410 |
personal web cam | 788 | personal web server | 394 |
personal home page | 777 | personal loan for people with bad credit | 393 |
unsecured personal loan | 744 | adult personal ads | 388 |
personal profile | 724 | personal injury attorney | 386 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "personal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | persoonlik (individual), eie (own). (various references) | |
Albanian | privat (particularistic, private), personal (esoteric, individual, interior, nominal, nominative, one-man, personalized, private, several), vetor, vetiak (one-man, personalized, private, proper), e tundshme (movable). (various references) | |
Arabic | فردي (individual, single, singular, solitary, solo), ذاتي (internal, spontaneous, subjective), خصوصي (characteristic, confidential, exclusive, individual, particular, peculiar, private, special, specific), خاص (ad hoc, individual, particular, peculiar, private, privy, proper, relative, special, specific), النبذة الشخصية, شخصاني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | физически за красота, телесен за красота, личен (finite, individual, intimate, particular, peculiar, private, privy, subjective), персонален (personnel), интимен (downstage, familiar, fireside, informal, inner, inofficial, intimate, keyhole, near, pally, private, privy, tete a tete, thick), извършен лично. (various references) | |
Chinese | 親身 (oneself), 私 (private, selfish), 人身 (person or body), 本人 (I, in person, oneself), 個人 (individual, oneself), 个人. (various references) | |
Czech | vlastní (inherent, intrinsic, intrinsical, own, particular, peculiar, proper, respective, underlying, whole), soukromý (executive, intimate, private, removed), osobní (individual, passenger). (various references) | |
Danish | personlig, egen (own). (various references) | |
Dutch | persoonlijk (in own hands, subjective), persoonlýk, eigen (domestic, own). (various references) | |
Esperanto | propra (own), persona. (various references) | |
Faeroese | egin (odd, own, peculiar, strange). (various references) | |
Farsi | مربوطبه شخص , حضوری , خصوصی (Backside, Backstage, Closet, Informal, Private, Subjective), شخصی (One, Own, Personable, Somebody, Someone). (various references) | |
Finnish | persoonallinen, omakohtainen (subjective), oma (own), mieskohtainen, henkilöllinen, henkilökohtainen (individual). (various references) | |
French | personnel (personnel), propre. (various references) | |
German | persönlich (friendly, in person, personally, private, privately). (various references) | |
Greek | ιδιωτικόσ (private), προσωπικόσ (individual, private), προσωπικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אישי (individual, private, subjective). (various references) | |
Hungarian | személyes, egyéni (especial, individual, particular, private, several, subjective, substantive). (various references) | |
Icelandic | eigin (own). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pribadi (private). (various references) | |
Irish | phearsanta, pearsanta. (various references) | |
Italian | proprio (appropriate, at all, characteristic, exact, exactly, her, his, its, jolly, just, literal, one's, one's own, own, particular, proper, proprietary, quite, real, really, right, suitable, their, typical, very, your), personale (Corporal, figure, person, personnel, private, staff). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 人称 (person), 一己 (oneself, private), 一身上 , 個性的 (individual), 個人 (individual, private, private person), 個人的 (individualistic, self-centred), 対人 , バ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu", par, park, park-and-ride, Parker, parking, parking area, parking driver, parking meter, parking valet, Parkinson, parse, parsec, parser, parsing, partial, partial freezing, pass, PC, percent, percentage, perceptron, percolator, percussion, pergola, personal call, personal check, personal communication, personal computer, personal opinion, personal selling, personality, perspective, purge, purse, purser), 自家 (own), 人的 (human), 直々 (direct), 直披 (confidential), 直接 (direct, firsthand, immediate), 直直 (direct), 私的 (private), パステル画 (catcher's error, parsley, passed ball, passport, password, pastel, pastoral, pathetic, pathetic drama, personal computer, puzzle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こせいてき (individual), ちょくひ (confidential), じんてき (human), じか (a fire raging in one's own home, current value, magnetize, market value, nowadays, own, price), じきじき (direct), じきひ (confidential), ちょくせつ (decisiveness, direct, directness, firsthand, frank, immediate, prompt, straightforward), こじんてき (individualistic, self-centred), たいじん (confrontation of armies, encampment, gentleman, man of substance or virtue, retirement, retreat, withdrawal), いっこ (a fragment, a household, a piece, notice of, one, one house, oneself, private, the first beat of the war drum), いっしんじょう, にんしょう (attestation, certification, Imperial attestation, person, testimony of a witness), してき (historic, historical, identification, poetic, pointing out, private), パソ , パーソナル , こじん (ancient people, individual, old friend, private, private person, the deceased). (various references) | |
Korean | 개인 (individual, one-man, Private). (various references) | |
Manx | persoonagh (private). (various references) | |
Norwegian | personnummer (personal number). (various references) | |
Papiamen | propio (own), personal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ersonalpay.(various references) | |
Polish | własny (own). (various references) | |
Portuguese | pessoal (acquainted, individual, own, personnel, private, privy, staff, untransferable), próprio (becoming, congenial, correct, due, fit, fitting, good, herself, himself, itself, meet, own, particular, proper, rightdown, seemly, self, selfsame, special, suitable, very). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | pessoal. (various references) | |
Romanian | propriu (adequate, appropriate, fitting, inherent, intrinsic, own, peculiar, proper, resident, salient, suitable), pronume personal (personal pronoun), privat (private, privy), personal (by oneself, individual, individually, original, own, particular, peculiarly, personally, personnel, private, staff), particular (peculiar, private, privy, proprietary, separate, specific), mobil (changeable, detachable, impulse, mobile, motive, movable, moving, removable, unstable, working), individual (distinct, individual, individually, particular, particularly, private, several, severally, single, substantive), fizic (appearance, bodily, body, concrete, corporeal, figure, outer, physical, physique), caustic (acerb, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, pungent, pungently, scathing, scorching), avere personalã (private means), aluzii ofensatoare (personality), în persoanã. (various references) | |
Russian | персональный. (various references) | |
Scottish | -sa, -se, -san (emphatic pronominal particle attached to personal pronouns and to nouns preceded by the possessive pronouns: mi-se), morair (old personal title rendered in Eng. `lord'), maoidhean (personal influence). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokretan (ambulatory, floating, impellent, locomotive, maneuverable, manoeuvrable, mobile, motile, movable, moveable, moving, shifting), telesni (bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, hylic, physical), lični (subjective), ličan (individual, prejudiced, private, subjective). (various references) | |
Spanish | personal (crew, force, identity, individual, intimate, particular, personnel, private, staff, workforce), propio (befitting, individual, like, own, peculiar, proper, very own). (various references) | |
Sranan | eygi (herself, himself, itself, own, self). (various references) | |
Swedish | personlig (individual, person-to-person), enskild (individual, private, separate, specific, unadopted). (various references) | |
Turkish | vücut (body, corporality, flesh, form, organism, person, somatic, system), kişiye yönelik, kişiye özel (private, proprietary), kişisel ilanlar sayfası, kişisel (closet, individual, intimate, private, self, singular), şahsi (closet, individual, private, proprietary, self), özel (ad hoc, closet, distinctive, esoteric, especial, exclusive, express, extraordinary, individual, intimate, particular, peculiar, private, privy, proper, proprietary, self, sole, special, specific, state, very). (various references) | |
Turkmen | personal (r), юahsy, яekebara. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що стосується особи, особистий (individual, interior, peculiar, private, several, subjective), персональний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tư (private), riêng nói đến cá nhân, chỉ trích cá nhân, cá nhân (individual, individually), ám chỉ cá nhân. (various references) | |
Welsh | personol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u-rum. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | domestica, domesticam, domestici, domesticis, domesticorum, domesticos, domesticum, peculiarem, peculiaria, peculiaris, privata, privati. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "personal": personalise, personalised, personalises, personalising, personalism, personalisms, personalist, personalistic, personalists, personalities, personality, personalization, personalizations, personalize, personalized, personalizes, personalizing, personally, personals, personalties, personalty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "personal": impersonal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, nonpersonal, superpersonal, transpersonal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "personal": depersonalization, depersonalizations, depersonalize, depersonalized, depersonalizes, depersonalizing, impersonalities, impersonality, impersonalization, impersonalizations, impersonalize, impersonalized, impersonalizes, impersonalizing, impersonally, interpersonally. (additional references) | |
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"Personal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apersonal, episomal, Parsona, Perboral, peristomal, peronal, peroral, persana, persanna, persional, personale, Personall, personalle, personaly, personell, personial, personnal, Pertenhall, Pesnel, Pessoal, precoxal, preoral, Presnail, Pressnell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "personal" (pronounced per"sunul) |
| 7 | p er" s u n u l | impersonal, interpersonal. |
| 5 | -s u n u l | Arsenal, medicinal. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, attitudinal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, coeducational, collisional, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, criminal, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, erosional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, improvisational, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, phenomenal, polygonal, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, seminal, sensational, sentinel, situational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, virginal, vocational. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, spinal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: psoralen. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: espanol, loaners, paroles, persona, planers, prolans, reloans, replans, reposal. | |
-2 letters: anoles, aprons, arpens, arseno, aslope, enrols, lanose, lapser, learns, loaner, loners, lopers, lorans, nerols, nopals, operas, paeons, panels, pareos, parles, parole, parols, parson, pearls, person, planer, planes, polars, polers, prolan, proles, reason, reloan, replan, senora, sloper, soaper, splore, sporal. | |
-3 letters: aeons, aloes, alone. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: layperson, overplans, personals, psoralens. | |
+2 letters: aeroplanes, alpenhorns, gyroplanes, impersonal, lampooners, laypersons, narcolepsy, nonpareils, overplants, personable, personally, personalty, piperonals, porcelains, prolamines. | |
+3 letters: antileprosy, complainers, hydroplanes, nalorphines, nonpersonal, palindromes, pennyroyals, personalise, personalism, personalist, personality, personalize, polyandries, pratincoles, prefrontals, previsional, propellants, rhizoplanes, salesperson, scolopendra, supernormal, trampolines. | |
+4 letters: candlepowers, coleopterans, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, explorations, expressional, impersonally, interpolates, isoprenaline, lampooneries, laryngoscope, lycanthropes, melanophores, narcolepsies, narcoleptics, necrophilias, nonparallels, nonspherical, nontemporals, overexplains, pastoralness, pelargoniums, percolations, personalised, personalises, personalisms, personalists, personalized, personalizes, personalties, pilocarpines, plecopterans, porcelaneous, precessional, prelibations, processional, proconsulate, professional, proletarians, protoplanets, provableness, relationship, replications, salespersons, scolopendras, trampoliners, transposable, zooplankters. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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