A word that only appears once. If you are talking about a language in general (Horgal means salty jam. No one will ever use that word again), an entire genre or an author's entire body of work, a single book, or whatever.
For example, the word 'duck' is one of many hapax legomenon within this definition.
'An', 'entire', and 'word' are not hapax legomenon within this definition.
And now, neither are the words 'hapax', 'legomenon', 'within', 'this', and 'definition'.
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