Definitions of one [ʌn]

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Definition of 'one'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) one
being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing:
one child; one piece of cake.

2.  one
being an individual instance or member of a number, kind, or group indicated:
one member of the party.

3.  one
existing, acting, or considered as a single unit or entity.

4.  one
of the same or having a single kind, nature, or condition:
of one mind.

5.  one
denoting an unspecified day or time:
one evening last week.

6.  one
denoting some indefinite day or time in the future:
You'll see him one day.

7.  one
a certain (used in naming a person otherwise unknown or not described):
One John Smith was chosen.

8.  one
being a particular, unique, or only individual, item, or unit:
the one person I can trust.

9.  one
of no consequence as to the character, outcome, etc.; the same:
It's all one to me.

10.  one
a or an (used with intensifying force):
That is one smart dog.

11. (n.) one
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.

12.  one
a symbol of this number, as 1 or I.

13.  one
a single person or thing:
one at a time.

14.  one
a one-dollar bill.

15. (pron.) one
a person or thing of a number or kind indicated or understood:
one of the Elizabethan poets.

16.  one
a person or a personified being:
the evil one.

17.  one
any person or thing indefinitely; anyone or anything:
as good as one could desire.

18.  one
something or someone of the kind just mentioned:
The portraits are good ones.

19.  one
Chiefly Brit. (used as a substitute for the pronoun I):
Mother had been ill, and one should have realized it.

20.  one
with complete accord; unanimously:
They voted as one.

21.  one
in unison.

22.  one
at one,

23.  one
united in thought or feeling; attuned:
to feel at one with the world.

24.  one
for one, as an illustrative instance; for example:
I, for one, refuse to go along.

25.  one
one and all, everyone.

26.  one
one by one, singly and successively.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME oon, OE ān; c. OFris ān, ēn, OHG, G ein, ON einn, L unus one, Gk oínē ace on a die)

Definition of 'one'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) one, 1, I, ace, single, unity
the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
"he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one"

2. (adj) one
a single person or thing
"he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered"

3. (adj) one, 1, i, ane
used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
"`ane' is Scottish"

4. (adj) one(a), unitary
having the indivisible character of a unit
"a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice"

5. (adj) one(a)
of the same kind or quality
"two animals of one species"

6. (adj) one(a)
used informally as an intensifier
"that is one fine dog"

7. (adj) one(a)
indefinite in time or position
"he will come one day"; "one place or another"

8. (adj) one
being a single entity made by combining separate components
"three chemicals combining into one solution"

9. (adj) matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled
eminent beyond or above comparison
"matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art"

Definition of 'one'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (number) one
the number 1
One, two, three ...

2. (determiner) one
indicates a particular person or thing
One solution is to invite all of them.; One of my friends had a car accident last weekend.

3.  one
indicates a particular time
We should go out for a drink one night.; I was bored one day and decided I needed to travel.

4.  one
only
Women are his one weakness.; The weather is the one thing I don't like about living here.

5.  one
the one
emphasizes an adjective
That's one beautiful horse.

6.  one
one at a time
no more than one at the same time
Place them carefully in the box one at a time.

7.  one
one by one
separately, one after the other
One by one they left the room.

8. (pronoun) one
indicates a particular person or thing that has been mentioned
I'm getting an ice cream cone. Do you want one?; There are so many people. Which one is he?; How can they afford it? They're the ones with no money.; You're the one who told everybody the secret.

9.  one
the one/ones
indicates people in general
One should exercise regularly.

Translation of 'one'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the number or figure 1 One and one is two (1 + 1 = 2).
Afrikaans: een	Arabic: الرَّقْم واحد	Bulgarian: едно
Brazilian: um	Czech: jeden, jedna	German: die Eins
Danish: en; et	Greek: ένα	Spanish: uno
Estonian: üks	Farsi: یک	Finnish: yksi
French: un	Hebrew: אֶחָד, אַחַת	Hindi: एक, कोई, किसी
Croatian: jedan	Hungarian: egy	Indonesian: satu
Icelandic: einn	Italian: uno	Japanese: １
Korean: 하나	Lithuanian: vienas	Latvian: viens; vieninieks
Malay: satu	Dutch: één	Norwegian: en, et; ett(all)
Polish: jedynka, jeden	Persian: یک	Pashto: يو
Portuguese: um	Romanian: unu; unul/una	Russian: один; единица
Slovak: jeden, jedna, jedno	Slovenian: ena	Serbian: jedan
Swedish: ett	Thai: เลขหนึ่ง	Turkish: bir (sayısı)
Taiwanese: 一	Ukrainian: один	Urdu: ايک
Vietnamese: số 1	Chinese: 一
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