personal
• adjective 1 of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person. 2 involving the presence or action of a particular individual. 3 concerning a person’s private rather than professional life. 4 making inappropriate or offensive reference to a person’s character or appearance. 5 relating to a person’s body. 6 Grammar of one of the three persons. 7 existing as a self-aware entity, not as an abstraction or an impersonal force: a personal God. • noun (personals) chiefly N. Amer. advertisements or messages in the personal column of a newspaper.
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