Wednesday, March 9, 2016

peculiar

pe·cu·liar

pəˈkyo͞olyər/

adjective

1.

strange or odd; unusual.

"his accent was a peculiar mixture of Cockney and Irish"

synonyms:strange, unusual, odd, funny,curious, bizarre, weird, queer,unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal,atypical, anomalous, out of the ordinary; More

2.

belonging exclusively to.

"the air hung with an antiseptic aroma peculiar to hospitals"

synonyms:characteristic of, typical of,representative of, indicative of,suggestive of, exclusive to, unique to

"mannerisms peculiar to the islanders"

noun

BRITISH

1.

a parish or church exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese in which it lies, through being subject to the jurisdiction of the monarch or an archbishop.

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