# personals

Pronunciation: say "PUR-suh-nuhlz" US /ˈpɜɹ.sə.nəlz/, UK /ˈpɜː.sə.nəlz/

## Noun

1. Plural of personal. — plural of personal
   - Simple: Plural of personal. Use this form for more than one personal, like the short personal ads in a newspaper.
   - _He placed an advertisement among the personals hoping to reconnect with an old friend._
   - _The magazine's personals filled an entire column each week._

## Noun

2. Matters that belong properly to a person's own private concerns rather than to public or shared affairs. *(rare)*
   - Simple: Private matters that belong to a person's own life, not public or shared concerns.
   - _He guarded his personals closely, sharing little even with close friends._
   - _Her diary recorded the small personals she trusted to no one else._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/personals (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).