personal

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of or relating to a particular person; private: "Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted” ( Elizabeth Janeway).
2. adj. Done, made, or performed in person: a personal appearance.
3. adj. Done to or for or directed toward a particular person: a personal favor.
4. adj. Concerning a particular person and his or her private business, interests, or activities; intimate: I have something personal to tell you.
5. adj. Aimed pointedly at the most intimate aspects of a person, especially in a critical or hostile manner: an uncalled-for, highly personal remark.
6. adj. Tending to make remarks, or be unduly questioning, about another's affairs: As the student debate got heated, it got personal.
7. adj. Of or relating to the body or physical being: personal cleanliness.
8. adj. Relating to or having the nature of a person or self-conscious being: belief in a personal God.
9. adj. Law Relating to a person's movable property: personal possessions.
10. adj. Grammar Indicating grammatical person.
11. n. A personal item or notice in a newspaper.
12. n. A column in a newspaper or magazine featuring personal notices.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pertaining to a person or self-conscious being as distinct or distinguihshed from a thing; having personality, or the character of a person; self-conscious; belonging to men and women, or to superhuman intelligences, and not to animals or things: as, a personal God; the personal object of a verb.
2. Pertaining, relating, or peculiar to a person or self-consciious individual as distinct or distinguished from others or from the community; individual: as, not a public but a personal matter; personal interests; personal property, etc.
3. Proper or directly applicable to a specific person or individual, or to his character, conduct, etc.; pointed, directed, or specifically applicable or applied, especially in a disparaging or offensive sense or manner, to some particular individual (either one's self or another): as, a personal paragraph; personal abuse; personal remarkes.
4. Relating to one's self, or one's own experiences: as, personal reminiscences.
5. Done, effected, or made in person, and not by deputy or representative: as, a personal appearance; a personal interview; personal service of a summons; personal application is necessary.
6. Persent in person.
7. Of or pertaining to the person or bodily form; belonging to the face or figure; corporeal: as personal beauty.
8. In grammar, denoting or pointing to the person; expressing the distinctions of the three persons: as, a personal pronoun; a personal verb.
9. An action for the recovery of money or specific chattles.
10. Any action other than one for the recovery of land.
11. Originally called personal because the remedy for deprivation was to recover damages enforceable against the person of the defendant. In the law of England the distinction between real and personal property is very nearly the same as the distinction between heritable and movable property in the law of Scotland.
12. Those who succeed to property and rights by virtue of a personal relation, or as deemed to represent in law the person.
13. In the law of real property, such a servitude as has not been constituted for the advantage of the estate, but has been granted on another's estate, only for the use of a person.
14. n. In law, any movable thing, either living or dead; a movable.
15. n. A short notice or paragraph in a newspaper referring to some person or persons.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general
3. adj. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
4. adj. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
5. adj. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
6. adj. grammar Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
7. n. An advertisement by which individuals attempt to meet others with similar interests.
8. n. A movable; a chattel.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general
3. adj. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal.
4. adj. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
5. adj. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner.
6. adj. (Gram.) Denoting person.
7. n. (Law) A movable; a chattel.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality
2. adj. indicating grammatical person
3. adj. intimately concerning a person's body or physical being
4. adj. particular to a given individual
5. n. a short newspaper article about a particular person or group
6. adj. of or arising from personality