<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.</li><li>Synonyms: primeval, primordial, primitive, primary.</li><li>new; fresh; inventive; novel: an original way of advertising.</li><li>arising or proceeding independently of anything else: an original view of history.</li><li>capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner: an original thinker.</li><li>created, undertaken, or presented for the first time: to give the original performance of a string quartet.</li><li>being something from which a copy, a translation, or the like is made: The original document is in Washington.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a primary form or type from which varieties are derived.</li><li>Synonyms: model, prototype, pattern, archetype.</li><li>Antonyms: copy.</li><li>an original work, writing, or the like, as opposed to any copy or imitation: The original of this is in the British Museum.</li><li>the person or thing represented by a picture, description, etc.: The original is said to have been the painter's own house.</li><li>a person whose ways of thinking or acting are original: In a field of brilliant technicians he is a true original.</li><li>Archaic. an eccentric person.</li><li>Archaic. a source of being; an author or originator.</li></ul>