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Antonyms for one

Grammar : Adj
Spell : wuhn
Phonetic Transcription : wÊŒn

Definition of one

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 :
  • For one thing Fred sha'n't get into that kind of muss if I can save him from it.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • No one of our kindred must enter the family of Pericles as a slave.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Rather gain one prize from the Choragus than ten from the Gymnasiarch.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • One might have been a model for the seraphs of Christian faith, the other an Olympian deity.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • She's one of the build that aren't so big as they look, nor yet so small as they look.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • One need not look so high as the old-fashioned stuccoed ceiling.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • They were fabled as seven sisters, and one lost her place in the sky by marrying a mortal.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • What is the use of a beautiful face, if one must be shut up in her own apartment for ever?
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • But Avice is—er—my dear, she is like her mother in more ways than one.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • More than one of these precious volumes were transcribed entirely by her own hand.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

Synonyms for one

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