personal
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6.9
- noun
- /ˈpɜrsənl/
- Literature
:
anuncio personal
- The same harsh critic might also suggest that the focus on the personal reduces wider engagement with political and global issues.
Examples
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As mentioned earlier, it speaks to me on a personal as well as political level.
Blog text (8) -
Under "Project Personal," she found sheets of personal columns torn from magazines and newspapers.
Fiction book (1991) -
We always said the personal is political.
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- With the additional personal assigned to this case, we feel that we can successfully handle any threat to the Venice area.
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"Your sister told me you were running a personal on AUL, so I decided to get to know you myself.
Fiction book (1999) -
We kept in contact with each other through personals in the newspaper.
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They met in the personals section of a weekly newspaper.
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In her recent collection of autobiographical considerations and occasions, Getting Personal, Nancy Miller has an essay with a lovely footnote.
Academic text (1999) -
If a woman of Angela's beauty could resort to the personals, then Mira, without inordinate shame, could do so, too.
Fiction book (1999) -
They met through a personal ad in the newspaper.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A piece of writing in a newspaper or on a website
344
2.8
A regular newspaper article where a writer gives opinions
5
2.8
An article in a newspaper that a writer writes regularly to share opinions
Compounds
- Specialized
16
3.1
Things a person owns that can be moved, like furniture or jewelry
- Specialized
7
2.6
Money a bank gives a person for personal use that must be paid back with extra money
- Specialized
6
3.8
A rule break in sport when a player makes illegal rough contact with an opponent
4
2.2
Help for people who cannot fully look after themselves, for example with bathing, dressing, and eating
- Formal
3
6.9
A person chosen by law to manage someone's affairs and money after they die
- Archaic
2
4.7
A small handheld electronic device for keeping contacts, schedules, and notes
- Specialized
1
1.0
A word that refers to a person or thing, for example I, you, he, she
- Specialized
1
3.0
A secret number you use to prove who you are and open accounts
- Specialized
1
4.6
A program that helps you record and organize contacts, calendars, and tasks
- Formal
1
6.1
Things someone owns that can be moved, not land and buildings, like a car or jewelry
- Formal
1
7.1
A court decision that makes a person or company pay money to someone else
- Specialized
1
3.7
A small electronic device for keeping appointments, phone numbers, and notes
- Specialized
A person's skills, knowledge, contacts, and reputation that help them succeed
An agreement with a bank that lets a person borrow money up to a set limit when needed
- Archaic
Differences in results or judgments caused by a person's own way of seeing
- Literature
A part of a place or group that one person controls like their own property
- Specialized
An agreement with a bank that lets a person borrow money up to a set limit when needed
Belief that each person is responsible for their own health through their choices
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Personal as a noun (a short newspaper item) comes from the adjective personal meaning 'about a person'. Newspapers used this word for small notices about people's lives, so a 'personal' is a short item about a particular person or event.