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Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

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  1. a. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
  3. a. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
  4. a. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
  5. a. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
  6. a. Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
  7. n. A movable; a chattel.
  8. adj. concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality
  9. adj. of or arising from personality
  10. adj. indicating grammatical person
  11. adj. intimately concerning a person's body or physical being
  12. n. a short newspaper article about a particular person or group