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Meaning Of One
a.
Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more;
not multifold; single; individual.
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.
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.
a.
Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a
whole.
a.
Single in kind; the same; a common.
a.
Single; inmarried.
n.
A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
n.
A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
n.
A single person or thing.
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.