English Online Dictionary. What means exclusive? What does exclusive mean?
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/
- 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.
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- (of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
Antonyms
- inclusive
- non-exclusive
Derived terms
Related terms
- excludent (discrimination)
Translations
Noun
exclusive (plural exclusives)
- Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
- A member of a group who excludes others from their society.
- (grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
Translations
Further reading
- “exclusive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exclusive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
French
Adjective
exclusive
- feminine singular of exclusif
Latin
Adjective
exclūsīve
- vocative masculine singular of exclūsīvus