first or earliest known; newly created; not copied or imitated; able to produce new ideas etc
earliest
Cases of word usage
1) the first or original example from which others have been or will be copied or developed (prototype)
2) the quality of being real; something seen or experienced; (in art etc) a lifelike copy of the original (reality)
3) the quality of quickly recovering the original shape or condition after being pulled, pressed, crushed etc (resilience)
4) to return (to a former state, condition, topic etc); (of property rights etc) to return at some named time or under certain conditions (to the original owner) (revert)
5) the starting point (of a river); a place or person from which something comes or is got; original documents etc for an academic study (source)
6) the printed words in a book; the original words of an author, apart from anything else in a book (text)