Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
The dream of Pharaoh is one.
O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England.
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.
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.
From the one side of heaven unto the other.
Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.
The church is therefore one, though the members may be many.
Single in kind; the same; a common.
One plague was on you all, and on your lords.
Single; unmarried. [Obs.]
Men may counsel a woman to be one.
One day when Phoebe fair,
With all her band, was following the chase.
Well, I will marry one day.
One
n.
A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
A single person or thing.
He will hate the one, and love the other.
That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
Phrases & Compounds
After one
after one fashion; alike.
At one
in agreement or concord. See At one, in the Vocab.
Ever in one
continually; perpetually; always.
In one
in union; in a single whole.
One and one
singly; one at a time; one after another.
one on one
contesting an opponent individually; -- in a contest.
go one on one
to contest one opponent by oneself; -- in a game, esp. basketball.
One
indef. pron.
Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
It was well worth one's while.
Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can.
When any one heareth the word.
She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia.
The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another.
The gentry received one another.
One
v. t.
To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite. [Obs.]
The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world.