Synonyms for onest

Grammar : Adj

Spell : wuhn

Phonetic Transcription : wʌn

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Définition of onest

Origin : c.1200, from Old English an (adjective, pronoun, noun) "one," from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (cf. Old Norse einn, Danish een, Old Frisian an, Dutch een, German ein, Gothic ains), from PIE *oi-no- "one, unique" (cf. Greek oinos "ace (on dice);" Latin unus "one;" Old Persian aivam; Old Church Slavonic -inu, ino-; Lithuanian vienas; Old Irish oin; Breton un "one").
Originally pronounced as it still is in only, and in dialectal good 'un, young 'un, etc.; the now-standard pronunciation "wun" began c.14c. in southwest and west England (Tyndale, a Gloucester man, spells it won in his Bible translation), and it began to be general 18c. Use as indefinite pronoun influenced by unrelated French on and Latin homo.
One and only "sweetheart" is from 1906. One of those things "unpredictable occurrence" is from 1934. Slang one-arm bandit "a type of slot machine" is recorded by 1938. One-night stand is 1880 in performance sense; 1963 in sexual sense. One of the boys "ordinary amiable fellow" is from 1893. One-track mind is from 1927. Drinking expression one for the road is from 1950 (as a song title).

adj individual

Example sentences :

There uster be one onest, about a year ago, but he's all right now.
Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, September 1908, No. 5 » by Various

A woman's onest was not ruined by secret vice, but by the exposure of it, which brought ridicule and shame.
Extract from : « Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study » by Edward Hutton

Euclid was consulted, and recommended the "onest craft of good masonry," and the origin of the order is found "yn Egypte lande."
Extract from : « The Builders » by Joseph Fort Newton

They'd been used to all sorts of fallals, and they didn't take to 'onest feeding, not till it was too late.
Extract from : « The War in the Air » by Herbert George Wells

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