Word Definition

Individual

  1. The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
  2. An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
  3. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
  4. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.