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One   /wən/  /hwən/   Listen
adjective
One  adj.  
1.
Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual. "The dream of Pharaoh is one." "O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England."
2.
Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" (), that is, of a certain man named Claudio.
3.
Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; used as a correlative adjective, with or without the. "From the one side of heaven unto the other."
4.
Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole. "The church is therefore one, though the members may be many."
5.
Single in kind; the same; a common. "One plague was on you all, and on your lords."
6.
Single; unmarried. (Obs.) "Men may counsel a woman to be one." Note: One is often used in forming compound words, the meaning of which is obvious; as, one-armed, one-celled, one-eyed, one-handed, one-hearted, one-horned, one-idead, one-leaved, one-masted, one-ribbed, one-story, one-syllable, one-stringed, one-winged, etc.
All one, of the same or equal nature, or consequence; all the same; as, he says that it is all one what course you take.
One day.
(a)
On a certain day, not definitely specified, referring to time past. "One day when Phoebe fair, With all her band, was following the chase."
(b)
Referring to future time: At some uncertain day or period in the future; some day. "Well, I will marry one day."


pronoun
One  pron.  Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self. "It was well worth one's while." "Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can." Note: One is often used with some, any, no, each, every, such, a, many a, another, the other, etc. It is sometimes joined with another, to denote a reciprocal relation. "When any one heareth the word." "She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia." "The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another." "The gentry received one another."


noun
One  n.  
1.
A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
2.
A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
3.
A single person or thing. "The shining ones." "Hence, with your little ones." "He will hate the one, and love the other." "That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory."
After one, after one fashion; alike. (Obs.)
At one, in agreement or concord. See At one, in the Vocab.
Ever in one, continually; perpetually; always. (Obs.)
In one, in union; in a single whole.
One and one, One by one, singly; one at a time; one after another. "Raising one by one the suppliant crew."
one on one contesting an opponent individually; in a contest.
go one on one, to contest one opponent by oneself; in a game, esp. basketball.


verb
One  v. t.  To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite. (Obs.) "The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world."


suffix
-one  suff.  (Chem.) A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone.


-one  suff.  (Chem.) A termination indicating that the hydrocarbon to the name of which it is affixed belongs to the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the third series of unsaturated hydrocarbons; as, nonone. (archaic)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"One" Quotes from Famous Books



... the east coast, much of which is too unhealthy for habitation other than by natives. The two Boer republics are rapidly filling up with British people, are being developed by British capital, and must in time become confederated with the states that environ them. One of them, too, is already under British suzerainty. British South Africa, however, is as yet only a name. It has no real existence except in hope. The aspiration of statesmen in southern Africa is that all the territories of southern Africa under British control shall ...
— Up To Date Business - Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) • Various
... determined to bring with him also some specimens of the natives whom he wished to present to the King. The practice of the time seemed to give a tacit sanction to the act, but it is much to be regretted that in carrying out his object, Cartier should have had recourse to stratagem. Donacona, one of the chiefs, was decoyed on board the French ship, with nine other savages, and borne away from his home in the wilds, which poor though it might be, was more precious to him than all the grandeur of the French ...
— The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation • "A Religious of the Ursuline Community"
... exiled king, and resolved to dismiss Killigrew as soon as possible. Killigrew was poor, and his master had little or nothing to give him, so he hit upon the expedient of keeping a butcher's shop, where he could sell meat, cheaper than any one else in Venice, by availing himself of his exemptions from octroi. The Senate resolved to fasten upon this illicit traffic as a pretext for dismissing Killigrew; and on the 22d of June, 1652, they sent ...
— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various
... Judge Willis's decision, and by his consequent withdrawal from the bench, was one for which the Executive deemed it essential to provide without unnecessary delay. It was manifestly impossible that matters should remain in statu quo. The time for holding the annual circuits was approaching. Mr. Sherwood was the only Judge remaining on the bench, and a Court composed ...
— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent
... expected to receive my answer from Wincot in the shape of a letter. It was consequently a great surprise, as well as a great relief, to be informed one day that two gentlemen wished to speak with me, and to find that of these two gentlemen the first was the old priest, and the second a male ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins


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