Premium vs Original - What's the difference?
premium | original |
Superior in quality; higher in price or value.
A prize or award.
Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
An unusually high value.
(finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
As adjectives the difference between premium and original
is that premium is superior in quality; higher in price or value while original is relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.As nouns the difference between premium and original
is that premium is a prize or award while original is an object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.premium
English
(wikipedia premium)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* (term) is much less common than (premiums), accounting for less than 1% of total usage in US (COCA) and 4% in UK (BNC).Antonyms
* (finance) discountDerived terms
(Terms derived from the adjective or noun "premium") * at a premium * buyer's premium * premium bond * premium outletoriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original