particulars
- 1The specific facts or detailed points that make up something.
The report covered the particulars of the company's finances in full.
She refused to discuss the particulars until her attorney arrived.
Similardetails, specifics, facts
Note
Here the plural is the whole word. This meaning has no singular, so a single detail is not called 'a particular' in this sense. It sits naturally after verbs of settling and handling, as in work out the particulars, and it often fills in a broader plan already agreed on. Where the ordinary plural counts items one by one, this sense treats the details as a single body.
- 2Plural of particular.
The clerk recorded the particulars of each visitor.
These particulars must match the official records.
Note
A regular plural, made by adding -s, it carries every noun meaning of particular. In philosophy and logic, particulars are individual things as opposed to whole classes, and their counterparts are generals and universals. The everyday 'details' reading is a separate case, where the plural form is the only one; see the plural-only 'details' sense.
particulars is a form of particular
particular, noun: One of the small separate points or details that make up something larger. Full entry
- Forms
- particularparticulars plural
- Spelling
- particular → particulars: add -s
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