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One

//wʌn// adj, det, noun, num, particle, pron, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a period of time, being particular. not-comparable

    "One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries."

  2. 2
    Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. not-comparable

    "My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.""

  3. 3
    Sole, only. not-comparable

    "He is the one man who can help you."

  4. 4
    Whole, entire. not-comparable

    "Body and soul are not separate; they are one."

  5. 5
    In agreement. not-comparable

    "We are one on the importance of learning."

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  1. 6
    The same. not-comparable

    "The two types look very different, but are one species."

Adjective
  1. 1
    eminent beyond or above comparison wordnet
  2. 2
    indefinite in time or position wordnet
  3. 3
    being a single entity made by combining separate components wordnet
  4. 4
    (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier wordnet
  5. 5
    of the same kind or quality wordnet
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  1. 6
    used of a single unit or thing; not two or more wordnet
  2. 7
    having the indivisible character of a unit wordnet
Determiner
  1. 1
    A single.

    "There was one box of biscuits available."

  2. 2
    Used for emphasis in place of a; Being a preeminent example.

    "He is one hell of a guy."

  3. 3
    Used for emphasis in place of a; Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".

    "The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”."

Noun
  1. 1
    The digit or figure 1.

    "This effectively allows switching on and off of the flow of current, so it is either conducting or not conducting, creating the binary system of zeroes and ones used in digital computers."

  2. 2
    Honorific alternative letter-case form of one, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context. alt-of, honorific

    "And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised."

  3. 3
    a single person or thing wordnet
  4. 4
    Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context; A one-dollar bill. US

    "I need some ones to make change."

  5. 5
    the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number wordnet
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  1. 6
    Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context; One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

    "It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs."

  2. 7
    Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context; One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
  3. 8
    Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context; A joke or amusing anecdote.

    "Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?"

  4. 9
    Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context; An alcoholic drink, especially a pint or can of beer.

    "I had a quick one after work"

  5. 10
    Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context; An act of sexual intercourse.

    "Just a quick one before work"

  6. 11
    A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).

    "Now, he's a curious one."

  7. 12
    A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).; A person with a tendency to do something.

    "He's not one for pulling his punches."

  8. 13
    A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).; A term of address. archaic, endearing, ironic

    "Oh, most merciful one!"

  9. 14
    A particularly special or compatible person or thing. colloquial

    "I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month."

  10. 15
    A gay person. dated, derogatory, euphemistic

    "Finally got Ollie Martin. He couldn't have more poise, and what do I care if he is one?"

  11. 16
    The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
  12. 17
    Deliberate misspelling of !, used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". Internet, Leet, alt-of, deliberate, misspelling, sarcastic

    "A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!1!?1!"

Numeral
  1. 1
    The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

    "In some religions, there is more than one god."

  2. 2
    The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
  3. 3
    The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
  4. 4
    The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
Particle
  1. 1
    Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something. Manglish, Singlish

    "Got almonds one."

  2. 2
    Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something. Manglish, Singlish

    "My friend send one."

  3. 3
    Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else. Manglish, Singlish

    "Can easily get lost one, know?"

  4. 4
    A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun. Manglish, Singlish

    "The sell fruits one go home already."

Pronoun
  1. 1
    One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. impersonal, indefinite, pronoun

    "Any one of the boys."

  2. 2
    Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause. Manglish, Singlish, uncommon

    "The bird that make a lot of noise one is gone already."

  3. 3
    The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. impersonal, pronoun, sometimes, with-definite-article

    "She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other."

  4. 4
    Any person (applying to people in general). indefinite, personal, pronoun

    "One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.  One shouldn’t be too quick to judge."

  5. 5
    Any person, entity or thing. pronoun

    ""driver", noun: one who drives."

Verb
  1. 1
    To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. transitive

    "The question, of course, evokes discernment, not dogma, but we should note that the "unknowing" involves intellectual knowledge, whereas the problematic of being "oned" involves experiential knowledge."

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *h₁óynos From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”). Doublet of an. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een). Verb form from Middle English onen.

Etymology 2

PIE word *h₁óynos From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”). Doublet of an. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een). Verb form from Middle English onen.

Etymology 3

PIE word *h₁óynos From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”). Doublet of an. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een). Verb form from Middle English onen.

Etymology 4

PIE word *h₁óynos From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”). Doublet of an. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een). Verb form from Middle English onen.

Etymology 5

PIE word *h₁óynos From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”). Doublet of an. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een). Verb form from Middle English onen.

Etymology 6

PIE word *h₁óynos From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”). Doublet of an. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een). Verb form from Middle English onen.

Etymology 7

Analogous to several senses of Hokkien 個／个 (ê) and Mandarin 的 (de, declarative particle, nominalizer, etc.). This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and 的 (de) or 個 /个 (ê) as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge³).

Etymology 8

Analogous to several senses of Hokkien 個／个 (ê) and Mandarin 的 (de, declarative particle, nominalizer, etc.). This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and 的 (de) or 個 /个 (ê) as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge³).

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