that you can choose to do or have if you want to:
Certain courses are compulsory, others are optional. * This model comes with a number of optional extras (= things you can choose to have but which you will have to pay extra for).
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for optional is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is optional a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, optional is tagged as adjective.
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