Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Individual \In`di*vid"u*al\, n.
   1. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or
      being incapable of separation or division, without losing
      its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
      --Cowper.

            An object which is in the strict and primary sense
            one, and can not be logically divided, is called an
            individual.                           --Whately.

            That individuals die, his will ordains. --Dryden.

   2. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a
          compound animal.
      (b) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a
          single animal or becomes compound by budding or
          fission.

Individual \In`di*vid"u*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. individuus
   indivisible; pref. in- not + dividuus divisible, fr. dividere
   to divide: cf. F. individuel. See {Divide}.]
   1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity,
      or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an
      individual man, animal, or city.

            Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of
            all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual
            substance.                            --A. Tucker.

            United as one individual soul.        --Milton.

   2. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or
      characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive;
      as, individual traits of character; individual exertions;
      individual peculiarities.

Source : WordNet®

individual
     adj 1: being or characteristic of a single thing or person;
            "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the
            individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
            [ant: {common}]
     2: separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark
        the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis" [syn: {case-by-case},
         {item-by-item}]
     3: characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an
        individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy";
        "a single bed" [syn: {separate}, {single(a)}]
     4: concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual
        cars"; "each room has a private bath" [syn: {individual(a)},
         {private}]

individual
     n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
          [syn: {person}, {someone}, {somebody}, {mortal}, {human},
           {soul}]
     2: a single organism