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Entry 11 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

One

/(wŭn)/ · IPA /wʌn/
01 a. Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
  1. 1.
    Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
    “The dream of Pharaoh is one.” — Gen. xli. 25.
    “O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England.” — Shak.
  2. 2.
    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.
  3. 3.
    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.” — Deut. iv. 32.
  4. 4.
    Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.
    “The church is therefore one, though the members may be many.” — Bp. Pearson
  5. 5.
    Single in kind; the same; a common.
    “One plague was on you all, and on your lords.” — 1 Sam. vi. 4.
  6. 6.
    Single; unmarried.[Obs.]
    “Men may counsel a woman to be one.” — Chaucer.
    “One day when Phoebe fair, With all her band, was following the chase.” — Spenser.
    “Well, I will marry one day.” — Shak.
02 n. A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
  1. 1.
    A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
  2. 2.
    A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
  3. 3.
    A single person or thing.
    “He will hate the one, and love the other.” — Matt. vi. 24.
    “That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.” — Mark x. 37.
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.
03 indef. pron. Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
  1. 1.
    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.” — Hawthorne.
    “Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can.” — G. Eliot.
    “When any one heareth the word.” — Matt. xiii. 19.
    “She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia.” — Compton Reade.
    “The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another.” — Jowett (Thucyd. ).
    “The gentry received one another.” — Thackeray.
04 v. t. To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.
  1. 1.
    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.” — Chaucer.