Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character;
individuality; interest, etc.

One of the details or items of grounds of claim; –
usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as,
a particular of premises.

Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular
estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.

A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a
whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which
may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.

Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.

Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute;
circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an
accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.

Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing;
belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal;
peculiar; singular.

Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a
part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate;
sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a
constellation.

Separate or distinct by reason of superiority;
distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought
no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.

Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in
extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular
proposition; – opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative)
Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.