one

About 1709.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 1.
2. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Oneida.
3. numeral The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

   In some religions, there is more than one god.

4. numeral The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
5. numeral The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
6. numeral The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
7. pronoun One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.

   Any one of the boys.

8. pronoun The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.

   She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.

Similar words

i combined united same unity unitary cardinal one and only extraordinary ane

Often followed by

of or can another who is day to in

Word family

1 one and the same ones