exclusive
English
Etymology
From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/, /ɪkˈsklu.zɪv/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: ex‧clu‧sive
Adjective
exclusive (comparative more exclusive, superlative most exclusive)
- (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
- Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
- The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".
- (of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
- They decided to no longer be exclusive.
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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kleh₂w- (0 c, 62 e)
- excludent (discrimination)
Translations
excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions
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of high quality and/or renown
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exclusionary — see exclusionary
whole, undivided, entire
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Noun
exclusive (plural exclusives)
- Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
- The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.
- A member of a group who excludes others from their society.
- 1873, The Slang Dictionary, John Camden Hotten:
- The exclusives at the English Universities apply the term CAD to all non-members.
- (grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
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Further reading
- “exclusive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “exclusive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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