Definitions for one

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one one

Spelling: [wuhn]

IPA: /wʌn/

One is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in one (eno).

Definitions for one

noun

1. the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
2. a symbol of this number, as 1 or I.
3. a single person or thing:
4. a die face or a domino face having one pip.
5. a one-dollar bill:
6. (initial capital letter) Neoplatonism. the ultimate reality, seen as a central source of being by whose emanations all entities, spiritual and corporeal, have their existence, the corporeal ones containing the fewest of the emanations.

Idioms

1. at one, in a state of agreement; of one opinion. united in thought or feeling; attuned:
2. one and all, everyone:
3. one by one, singly and successively:
4. one for the road. road (def 10).

pronoun

1. a person or thing of a number or kind indicated or understood:
2. (in certain pronominal combinations) a person unless definitely specified otherwise:
3. (with a defining clause or other qualifying words) a person or a personified being or agency:
4. any person indefinitely; anyone:
5. Chiefly British. (used as a substitute for the pronoun I):
6. a person of the speaker's kind; such as the speaker himself or herself:
7. something or someone of the kind just mentioned:
8. something available or referred to, especially in the immediate area:

adjective

1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single:
2. being a person, thing, or individual instance or member of a number, kind, group, or category indicated:
3. existing, acting, or considered as a single unit, entity, or individual.
4. of the same or having a single kind, nature, or condition:
5. noting some indefinite day or time in the future:
6. a certain (often used in naming a person otherwise unknown or undescribed):
7. being a particular, unique, or only individual, item, or unit:
8. noting some indefinite day or time in the past:
9. of no consequence as to the character, outcome, etc.; the same:

Origin of one

before 900; Middle English oon, Old English ān; cognate with Dutch een, German ein, Gothic ains, Latin ūnus (OL oinos); akin to Greek oínē ace on a die

Examples for one

The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.

Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

He wears the look of one who is gnawed with envy, and he heaves the sigh of despair.

She's one of the build that aren't so big as they look, nor yet so small as they look.

The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.

In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

one might have been a model for the seraphs of Christian faith, the other an Olympian deity.

She was in a box with two men—one old and one young—and an older woman.

Geta dared trust no one but me to carry a message to Clinias.