Definition/Meaning of one

• English - Numeral: one ( cardinal ) A numerical value equal to 1; the first number in the set of natural numbers (especially in number theory); the cardinality of the smallest nonempty set . Ordinal: first . There is only one God . In many cultures , a baby turns one year old a year after its birth . One person , one vote . 1912 , Zane Grey , Riders of the Purple Sage , Chapter 8 Venters began to count them— one…
• English - Pronoun: one ( possessive one’s , plural ones ) ( impersonal pronoun ) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group . The big one looks good . I want the green one . A good driver is one who drives carefully . ( impersonal pronoun , sometimes with "the" ) The first mentioned of two things or people , as opposed to the other . She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the…
• English - Noun: one ( plural ones ) ( mathematics ) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring . The digit or figure 1 . ( US ) A one-dollar bill . ( cricket ) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single . A joke or amusing anecdote . Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac? ( colloquial ) A particularly special or compatible person or thing…
• English - Adjective: one ( not comparable ) Of a period of time , being particular; as , one morning , one year . One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries . Being a single , unspecified thing; a; any . My aunt used to say , " One day is just like the other ." Sole , only . He is the one man who can help you . Whole , entire . Body and soul are not…
• English - Verb: one ( third-person singular simple present ones , present participle oning , simple past and past participle oned ) ( obsolete , transitive ) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite . Chaucer The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world .