one
Part of speech: num
pron
adj
det
verb
particle
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
set-theory
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.
Inflected forms:
form: wone
pos: num
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 1
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: I
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: oneself
pos: pron
tags: reflexive
form: one's
pos: pron
tags: adjective
possessive
form: ones
pos: pron
tags: plural
form: wone
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 1
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: I
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: wone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 1
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: I
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: wone
pos: det
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 1
pos: det
tags: alternative
form: I
pos: det
tags: alternative
form: ones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 1
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: I
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: wone
pos: particle
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 1
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: I
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
pos: num
examples: In some religions, there is more than one god.
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
One person, one vote.
A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do / Two can be as bad as one / It's the loneliest number since the number one
In 1964, Dupuy developed the “Theoretical Lethality Index” (TLI), which calculated the lethal capacity of weapons across time. The TLI table showed how many persons a soldier with a weapon could theoretically kill in one hour.
gloss: The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
pos: num
gloss: The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
pos: num
gloss: The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
pos: num
gloss: One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
pos: pron
tags: impersonal
indefinite
pronoun
examples: Any one of the boys.
Every one of the bank’s employees.
A good driver is one who drives carefully.
Can I borrow an eraser? — Sorry pal, I haven't got one.
He's not one to pull his punches.
Which happies thoſe that pay the willing lone; / That's for thy ſelfe to breed an other thee / Or ten times happier be it ten for one,[…]
gloss: The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
pos: pron
tags: impersonal
pronoun
sometimes
with-definite-article
examples: She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.
I am one of the few women who've climbed Everest.
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
gloss: Any person (applying to people in general).
pos: pron
tags: indefinite
personal
pronoun
examples: 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.
My neighbor talks to one like a teacher.
It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace,[…]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…] — all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…].
One has to admire the sheer optimism of modern science: I love the fact that there is such a discipline as astrobiology, whose practitioners' task is to imagine what life might be like on other planets. Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.
gloss: Any person, entity or thing.
pos: pron
tags: pronoun
examples: "driver", noun: one who drives.
gloss: Of a period of time, being particular.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
gloss: Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."
gloss: Sole, only.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He is the one man who can help you.
The one male audience member at the concert is invited on stage.
gloss: Whole, entire.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Body and soul are not separate; they are one.
gloss: In agreement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are one on the importance of learning.
gloss: The same.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The two types look very different, but are one species.
gloss: A single.
pos: det
examples: There was one box of biscuits available.
gloss: Used for emphasis in place of a
pos: det
examples: He is one hell of a guy.
gloss: Used for emphasis in place of a
pos: det
examples: The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.
gloss: To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
And both shall be oned in eternal happiness.
Knit and oned to God human beings are irrevocably in relationship with the divine.
What might be if we were Oned? United, as we would say, but at a greater depth than being a season ticket holder in a football club, or a shareholder in some conglomerate.
gloss: Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: Got almonds one.
How come so heavy one ah?
Can one, why cannot?
Need to take train one.
'My boyfriends very possessive one. They don't allow me to wear clothes I want, do things I want,' she laments.
Why so special one?
Actually when she said don’t need to go hospital I was less worried already, don’t have to stay in hospital means not so serious one.
These fish, ah, anything also eat one. Small fish, each other, anything you throw in also they take.
Only sweet hands can draw sweet water, you know that. If I take the water myself, sure salty one.
When I was a kid, kena rotan also cannot learn one but when I had peace of mind, it was easy.
“There is no such thing as president of the world. But there is one king of the world. I am king of the world. Bigger than you!”
“Where got king, one? Who say so? You play cheat.”
“My mother say got. You don’t believe me you ask her.”
For me, I’m very drama one lah. I just want it to be very big, and to display our theatrics.
gloss: Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: My friend send one.
Who say one?
He ask one, not I ask one.
ooooooooooar! you own self admit one har! i never say one har!
gloss: Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: Can easily get lost one, know?
gloss: A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: The sell fruits one go home already.
Synonyms: yan
yen
you
they
Related words: first
none
once
onesome
Derived words: Air Force One
alonely
another one bites the dust
anyone
at one go
back one out
bedeen
bend one off
better one word in time than two afterwards
Big One
big ones
Big Red One
burn one down
busy as a one-armed paperhanger
buy the big one
Camp One
China plus one
crack one
curl one off
do number one
dot-and-carry-one
Enlightened One
Evil One
fast one
five-over-one
Formula One
frame one
give it the big one
have one more time
if ever there has been one
if ever there were one
if I've ever seen one
if there ever was one
if there ever were one
in one bite
Jimmy the One
Job One
Johnny one-note
Johnny One-note
Johnny One Note
League One
leave-one-out
look out for Number One
naked as the day one entered the world
noone
no one should be judge in his own case
not one
Number One
number one
off-by-one bug
Old One
one-act
one and a half syndrome
one-armed
one-armed bandit
one bad apple can spoil the barrel
one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
one-blink town
one-celled
one-cold
One Directioner
one-downmanship
one-eyed
one-eyed monster
one-footed
one guy
one-half crosswise
one-half lengthwise
one-hot
one-hour fuel
one hundred and one
one hundred per cent
one-hundred-thousandth
oneish
oneism
oneitis
one kind
one-legged
one-liner
oneling
one-man advantage
one-man train
onement
One Mile
one more time
One Nation
one-off
one of Jehovah's Witnesses
one of us
one-outer
one-party
one point
oner
one-reeler
ones and twos
ones and zeroes
onescore
one's damned if one does and one's damned if one doesn't
oneselves
oneship
onesie
onesies
one-size diaper
one-size-fits-most
one-size nappy
one-spot
one-stage prothrombin time
oneth
one thing and another
one thing or another
one-thousander
onetime
onety-one
one way
one-way
one-way light time
one-way time
one-year-old
on one's ones
put one across
route-one
run one on
shining ones
sleep one off
sling one up
snap-in-one
snap-in-one diaper
snap-in-one nappy
someone
stick one on
that'n
the ones
there's more than one way to fuck a cat
there's more than one way to skin a cat
these ones
this'n
those ones
three-in-one
time-one map
time-one mapping
under one roof
walk it like one talks it
whack one out
within one sigma
World War One
wrong 'un
yesterday but one
jerk one out
one drop
one-man
one-man band
one-on-one
rub one out
thousand and one
thousand one
all-in-one
all one
at one time
off-by-one error
one and only
one-bar prison
one engine in steam
onefold
onehead
one-hit kill
onehood
one-horse race
one-horse town
one love
one must give to get
oneness
one of these fine days
one of those things
one or two
oneself
one-shot
one-sixth
one-third
one time
one-to-many
one-to-one
one-two
one-up
only
that one
the one
this one
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: uno
lang: Bashkir
word: expressed by an izafa form
lang: Bashkir
word: берәү
roman: berəw
lang: Catalan
word: un
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 的
roman: de
lang: Esperanto
word: oni
lang: French
word: un
lang: French
word: une
lang: French
word: l'un
lang: French
word: l'une
lang: Galician
word: un
lang: Galician
word: unha
lang: Hindi
word: वो
roman: vo
lang: Hindi
word: ये
roman: ye
lang: Irish
word: ceann
lang: Irish
word: duine
lang: Italian
word: uno
lang: Italian
word: una
lang: Japanese
word: の
roman: no
lang: Malay
word: yang
lang: Malayalam
word: ഒന്ന്
roman: onnŭ
lang: Persian
word: ـه
roman: -e
lang: Polish
word: ktoś
lang: Romanian
word: unul
lang: Romanian
word: una
lang: Scots
word: ane
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: neach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fear
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tè
lang: Slovak
word: ten
lang: Spanish
word: uno
lang: Spanish
word: una
lang: Spanish
word: se
lang: Swahili
word: moja
lang: Vietnamese
word: thứ
lang: Vietnamese
word: cái
lang: Vietnamese
word: loại
lang: Volapük
word: oy
lang: Welsh
word: un
lang: Armenian
word: մի
roman: mi
lang: Asturian
word: un
lang: Asturian
word: una
lang: Danish
word: en
lang: Danish
word: et
lang: Dutch
word: op een
lang: Dutch
word: eens
lang: Dutch
word: ooit
lang: Finnish
word: eräänä
lang: Hindi
word: एक
roman: ek
lang: Indonesian
word: suatu
lang: Korean
word: 한
roman: han
lang: Malayalam
word: ഒരു
roman: oru
lang: Persian
word: یک
roman: yek
lang: Persian
word: ـی
lang: Polish
word: pewien
lang: Portuguese
word: algum
lang: Portuguese
word: um
lang: Scots
word: ae
lang: Slovak
word: jedného
lang: Spanish
word: un
lang: Swedish
word: en
lang: Swedish
word: ett
lang: Vietnamese
word: một
lang: Zazaki
word: yewın
lang: Asturian
word: únicu
lang: Asturian
word: solu
lang: Catalan
word: únic
lang: Danish
word: den
lang: Danish
word: det ene
lang: Danish
word: eneste
lang: Dutch
word: enige
lang: Dutch
word: ene
lang: Finnish
word: ainoa
lang: Hindi
word: तनहा
roman: tanhā
lang: Japanese
word: たった一つの
roman: tatta hitotsu no
lang: Japanese
word: ただ一つの
roman: tada hitotsu no
lang: Kikuyu
word: mwe
lang: Korean
word: 오직
roman: ojik
lang: Korean
word: 유일한
roman: yuilhan
lang: Malayalam
word: ഒറ്റ
roman: oṟṟa
lang: Old Prussian
word: āins
lang: Persian
word: تنها
roman: tanhâ
lang: Polish
word: jedyny
lang: Portuguese
word: único
lang: Russian
word: оди́н
roman: odín
lang: Russian
word: еди́нственный
roman: jedínstvennyj
lang: Russian
word: тот са́мый
roman: tot sámyj
lang: Santali
word: ᱮᱠᱚ
roman: ekô
lang: Slovak
word: jediný
lang: Spanish
word: único
lang: Swedish
word: enda
lang: Swedish
word: endaste
lang: Vietnamese
word: duy nhất
lang: Asturian
word: ún
lang: Asturian
word: unu
lang: Catalan
word: u
lang: Dutch
word: één
lang: Finnish
word: yksi
lang: German
word: eins
lang: Indonesian
word: kesatuan
lang: Persian
word: واحد
roman: vâhed
lang: Scots
word: haill
lang: Slovak
word: jedno
lang: Slovak
word: celok
lang: Danish
word: enet
lang: Finnish
word: yhtä mieltä
lang: Hindi
word: मुवाफिक
roman: muvāphik
lang: Hindi
word: माफिक
roman: māphik
lang: Hindi
word: मुनासिब
roman: munāsib
lang: Hindi
word: अनुकूल
roman: anukūl
lang: Indonesian
word: setuju
lang: Persian
word: موافق
roman: movâfeq
lang: Slovak
word: za jedno
lang: Swedish
word: enad
lang: Catalan
word: mateix
lang: Danish
word: en og samme
lang: Dutch
word: dezelfde
lang: Slovak
word: jeden
lang: Vietnamese
word: cùng