one
Meanings
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
- The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
- One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
- The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- Any person (applying to people in general).
- Any person, entity or thing.
- The digit or figure 1.
- Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context
- A one-dollar bill.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- A question.
- An alcoholic drink, especially a pint or can of beer.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
- A person with a tendency to do something.
- A term of address.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- Sole, only.
- Whole, entire.
- In agreement.
- The same.
- A single.
- Used for emphasis in place of a
- Being a preeminent example.
- Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
- To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else.
- A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
- Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- Honorific alternative letter-case form of one, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
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Etymology
PIE word *h₁óynos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English on English one 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.