adjective |
1. Being a single entity, unit, object, or living being. |
2. Characterized by unity; undivided: They spoke with one voice. |
3. Of the same kind or quality: two animals of one species. |
4. Forming a single entity of two or more components: three chemicals combining into one solution. |
5. Being a single thing in contrast with or relation to another or others of its kind: One day is just like the next. |
6. Occurring or existing as something indefinite, as in time or position: He will come one day. |
7. Occurring or existing as something particular but unspecified, as in time past: late one evening. |
8. Informal Used as an intensive: That is one fine dog. |
9. Being the only individual of a specified or implied kind: the one person I could marry; the one horse that can win this race. |
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idiom |
1. at one In accord or unity. |
2. one and all Everyone. |
3. one by one Individually in succession. |
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noun |
1. The cardinal number, represented by the symbol 1, designating the first such unit in a series. |
2. A single person or thing; a unit: This is the one I like best. |
3. A one-dollar bill. |
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pronoun |
1. An indefinitely specified individual: She visited one of her cousins. |
2. An unspecified individual; anyone: "The older one grows the more one likes indecency” ( Virginia Woolf). |
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