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Definition of: peculiar
(pi·ky
l′yər) adjective
1. Having a character exclusively its own; unlike anything else or anything of the same class or kind; specific; particular.
2. Singular; odd; strange.
3. Select or special; separate; distinguished.
4. Belonging particularly or exclusively to one.
—noun
1. A person or thing that is peculiar; formerly, any private possession.
2. A member of the sect known as the Peculiar People. See synonyms under EXTRAORDINARY, ODD, PARTICULAR, QUEER, RARE1. [<MF peculier <L peculiaris <peculium. See PECULIUM.]
—pe·cul′iar·ly adverb
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