Meaning Of One

a.

Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
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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.
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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.
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Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.
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Single in kind; the same; a common.
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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.