What is the denotative meaning of original?

Answer 1

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process., Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture., Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius., Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter., Origin; commencement; source., That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc., An original thinker or writer; an originator., A person of marked eccentricity., The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.