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As a numeral one

is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the first number in the set of natural numbers (especially in number theory); the cardinality of the smallest nonempty set ordinal: first.

As a pronoun one

is (lb) one thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.

As a noun one

is (mathematics) the neutral element with respect to multiplication in a.

As an adjective one

is of a period of time, being particular; as, one morning, one year.

As a verb one

is (obsolete|transitive) to cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.

As a proper noun lord is

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one

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (both obsolete) * Arabic numeral: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numeral: I

Numeral

(head)
  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; 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 Earth.
    In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
    One''' person, '''one vote.
  • *
  • Venters began to count them—one —two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
  • The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first'' or ''number one .
  • Synonyms

    *

    See also

    *

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns (possessive'' ''', ''plural'' ' ones )
  • (lb) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
  • :
  • The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
  • :
  • *1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
  • *:Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • (lb) Any person (applying to people in general).
  • :
  • *
  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • *, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace,
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one' has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so ' one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • *
  • *:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one' only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow ' one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-06, author=(Philip Hoare)
  • , volume=189, issue=13, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= If we're all Martians, who are the aliens? , passage=One has to admire the sheer optimism of modern science: I love the fact that there is such a discipline as astrobiology, whose practitioners' task is to imagine what life might be like on other planets. Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.}}
  • (lb) Any person, entity or thing.
  • :
  • Synonyms

    * (unidentified person) you, they in nominative personal case.

    Derived terms

    * oneness * oneself

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a .
  • 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.
  • * I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.
  • * That car's the one — I'll buy it.
  • * 1995 , (Bryan Adams),
  • When you love a woman then tell her
    that she's really wanted
    When you love a woman then tell her that she's the one
    'cause she needs somebody to tell her
    that it's gonna last forever
  • (Internet slang, leet, sarcastic) Used instead of to amplify an exclamation, imitating unskilled users who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
  • A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
    B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one'''!!'''one !!eleven!!1!
  • * 2003' September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11'''one !!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, ''Usenet
  • * 2004' November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11'''one ", in comp.lang.awk, ''Usenet
  • * 2007' December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!'''one'''!11!!1'''oneone !1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, ''Usenet
  • Synonyms

    * unity * single * , eleven

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a period of time, being particular; as, one morning, one year.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
  • Sole, only.
  • Whole, entire.
  • In agreement.
  • The same.
  • Being a preeminent example.
  • Being an unknown person with the specified name.
  • Derived terms

    * all one * one and only * one-on-one * one or two * one-two * one-up * the one

    Verb

    (on)
  • (obsolete) 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.

    Statistics

    *

    lord

    English

    (Lord)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) The master of the servants of a household; (label) the master of a feudal manor
  • *c. 950 , (Lindisfarne Gospels), Matt. xxiv. 46
  • *:Eadig ðe]] ðone miððy cymes hlaferd his on-fand sua [[doing, doende.
  • *1611 , (King James Bible), Matt. xxiv. 46
  • *:Ble??ed]] is that finde [[so, ?o doing.
  • *1600 , (William Shakespeare), , iii. ii. 167 ff.
  • *:Por . ...But now, I was the Lord
  • *:of this faire man?ion]], of my [[servants, ?eruants,
  • *:Queene]] oer [[myself, my ?elfe...
  • *1794 , E. Christian in (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England) , II. 418
  • *:Lords of manors are distinguished from other land-owners with regard to the game.
  • #(label) The male head of a household, a father or husband.
  • #*831 , charter in Henry Sweet, The oldest English texts , 445
  • #*:Ymbe ðet lond et cert ðe hire eðelmod hire hlabard salde.
  • #*1594 , (William Shakespeare), "(The Rape of Lucrece)"
  • #*:...thou worthie Lord ,
  • #*:Of that vnworthie]] wife that [[greets, greeteth thee
  • #*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), (The Taming of the Shrew) (1623), v. ii. 131 f.
  • #*:Pet. Katherine , I charge thee, tell the?e]] [[head-strong, head-?trong women,
  • #*:What dutie]] they doe owe their Lords and [[husbands, hu?bands!
  • #*1611 , (King James Bible), Gen. xviii. 12
  • #*:Therefore Sarah laughed within her ?elfe]], , my lord being old [[also, al?o?
  • #*1816 , (Jane Austen), , III. xvi. 300
  • #*:Yes, here I am, my good friend; and here I have been so long, that anywhere else I should think it necessary to apologise; but, the truth is, that I am waiting for my lord and master.
  • #(label) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
  • #*ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 601 f.
  • #*:Als]] oure lauerd has [[heaven, heuen in hand
  • #*:Sua]] [[should, suld man be lauerd of land.
  • #*1480 , Waterford Archives in the 10th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1885), App. v. 316
  • #*:All suche lordes as have gutters betuxte]] [[their, thar houses.
  • #*ante'' 1637 , (Ben Jonson), ''Sad Shepherd , ii. i. 36
  • #*:A mightie Lord of Swine!
  • #*1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro)'s Æneis , xii
  • #*:Turnus...
  • #*:Wrench'd from his feeble hold the shining Sword;
  • #*:And plung'd it in the Bosom of its Lord .
  • #*1874 , J. H. Collins, Principles of Metal Mining (1875), Gloss. 139/2
  • #*:Lord''''', the owner of the land in which a mine is situated is called the ‘' lord ’.
  • One possessing similar mastery over others; (label) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler
  • *c. 893 , Orosius's History , i. i. §13
  • *:Ohthere sæde his hlaforde , Ælfrede cyninge, þæt...
  • * 1530 , John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement , 680/1
  • It is a pytuouse]] case... whan subjectes rebell [[against, agaynst their naturall lorde .
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , xii. 70
  • Man over men He made not Lord .
  • # (label) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king
  • # A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
  • #* ante 1375 , William of Palerne (1867), l.4539
  • To fare out as fast with his fader to speke, & with lordesse of þat]] [[land, lond.
  • #* ante'' 1420 , T. Hoccleve, ''De Regimine Principum , 442
  • Men myghten lordis knowe
  • By there]] arraye, from [[other, oþir folke.
  • #* 1453 , Rolls of Parliament, V. 266/2
  • If such persone bee of the estate of a Lord , as Duc]], Marques, Erle, Viscount or [[baron, Baron.
  • #* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (The life and death of King Richard the Second) , iv.i.18
  • Princes, and noble Lords :
  • What an?wer]] I make to this [[base, ba?e man?
  • #* 1614 , J. Selden, Titles of Honor , 59
  • Our English name Lord , whereby we and the Scots stile]] all such as are of the Greater [[nobility, Nobilitie i. Barons, as also Bishops.
  • #* 1900 July 21, Daily Express , 5/7
  • The Englishman of to-day still dearly loves a lord .
  • # A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones
  • #* 1526 , W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection , i. sig. Bviiiv
  • Farre]] excellyng the state of lordes , erles, dukes or [[kings, kynges.
  • #* 1826 , (Benjamin Disraeli), Vivian Grey , II. iii. iii. 26
  • The Marquess played off the two Lords and the Baronet against his former friend.
  • One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
  • * ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 782
  • O wityng bath]] [[good, god and ill ?ee suld be lauerds at ?our will.
  • * 1398 , John Trevisa translating Bartholomew de Glanville's De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495), viii. xvi. 322
  • The sonne]] is the lorde of [[planets, planetes.
    1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro) as (Georgics) , iii
    Love is Lord of all.
  • * 1992 November 18, (Larry David), (Seinfeld) , 4.11: "(The Contest)":
  • But are you still master of your domain?
    I am king of the county. You?
    Lord of the manor.
  • # The magnates of a trade or profession
  • #* 1823 , W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (1885), I. 399
  • Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!
  • (label) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time,
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer), Treatise on the Astrolabe , ii. §4:
  • The assendent]], & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan hows of the [[ascendant, assendent.
  • A hunchback.
  • *1699 , B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew :
  • Lord , a very crooked, deformed... Person.
  • Sixpence.
  • * 1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement , 782/1:
  • Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord ’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.

    Derived terms

    * lord mesne, lord paramount, lord in gross, lord of the manor * House of Lords, Lords Temporal, Lords Spiritual * drunk as a lord * lord-in-waiting, lord of the bedchamber, lord superior * lords of creation * warlord * landlord * lord-fish

    Synonyms

    * drighten, possessor, proprietor, sovereign

    See also

    * lady

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Domineer or act like a lord.
  • (label) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * lord it over

    References

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