What is the meaning of One?

  • (n.) A symbol representing a unit, as 1 or i.
  • (n.) A single person or thing.
  • (a.) Pointing out a contrast or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.
  • (n.) A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
  • (a.) Single in kind; the same; a common.
  • (a.) Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" [Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio.
  • (a.) Being a single unit or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
  • (a.) Single; inmarried.
  • (indef.pron.) Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
  • (v.t.) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.
  • (a.) Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.
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