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one
noun
    1a. The cardinal number 1;
    1b. The quantity that this represents, being a single unit.
    2. A unity or unit.
    3. Any symbol for this, eg 1, I.
    4. The age of one.
    5. Something, especially a garment or a person, whose size is denoted by the number 1.
    6. The first hour after midnight or midday.
      Example: Come at one o'clock
      Example: 1pm
    7. A score of one point.
    8. colloq
      A story or joke
      Example: heard the one about the singing policeman?
    9. colloq
      An enthusiast of the specified thing.
      Example: She's quite a one for chess
      Form: one for something
    10. colloq
      A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
      Example: drop in for a quick one
    11. colloq
      A daring, remarkable or cheeky person
      Example: You are a one!
adj
    1. Being a single unit, number or thing.
      Thesaurus: whole, entire, total, complete; indivisible, integral, united.
    2. Being a particular person or thing, especially as distinct from another or others of the same kind.
      Example: lift one leg and then the other
    3. Being a particular but unspecified instance or example.
      Example: visit him one day soon
    4. Being the only such.
      Example: the one woman who can beat her
    5. Same; identical.
      Example: of one mind
      Thesaurus: identical, compatible, equal.
    6. Undivided; forming a single whole.
      Example: They sang with one voice
    7. First.
      Example: page one
    8. colloq
      An exceptional example or instance of something.
      Example: That was one big fellow
      Thesaurus: peculiar, singular, lone, single, solitary, unique, different.
    9. Totalling one.
    10. Aged one.
pronoun
    1. (often referring to a noun already mentioned or implied) an individual person, thing or instance.
      Example: buy the blue one
      Thesaurus: somebody, someone, person, individual, item, unit, thing, example.
    2. Anybody.
      Example: One can't do better than that
    3. formal or facetious
      I; me.
      Example: One doesn't like to pry
Idiom: all one
    Just the same; of no consequence.
      Example: It's all one to me
Idiom: at one with someone or something
    In complete agreement with them.
    In harmony with them.
      Example: at one with nature
Idiom: be one up on someone
    colloq
    To have an advantage over them.
Idiom: for one
    As one person.
      Example: I for one don't agree
Idiom: all in one
    Together; combined; as one unit or object, etc.
    In one go or attempt.
Idiom: just one of those things
    An unfortunate event or situation that must be accepted.
Idiom: one and all
    Everyone without exception.
Idiom: one and only
    Used for emphasis: only.
Idiom: one another
    Used as the object of a verb or preposition when an action takes place between two (or more than two) people, etc.
      Example: Chris and Pat love one another
Idiom: one by one
    One after the other; individually.
Idiom: one or two
    colloq
    A few.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon an.

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