[
US
/ˈwən/
]
[ UK /wˈɒn/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
indefinite in time or position
he will come one day
one place or another -
being a single entity made by combining separate components
three chemicals combining into one solution -
(informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
a right fine day
that is one fine dog -
eminent beyond or above comparison
the team's nonpareil center fielder
she's one girl in a million
unrivaled mastery of her art
matchless beauty
a peerless scholar
wrote with unmatchable clarity
the one and only Muhammad Ali
infamy unmatched in the Western world -
of the same kind or quality
two animals of one species -
used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
`ane' is Scottish -
having the indivisible character of a unit
spoke with one voice
a unitary action
NOUN
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the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
they had lunch at one
he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it -
a single person or thing
he is the best one
this is the one I ordered
How To Use one In A Sentence
- It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
- My aunt is very old-fashioned.
- I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
- I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
- Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard. The Sun
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
- Dom recognized a master tactician when he saw one. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE