one

1. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.Examples: "Any one of the boys."; "Every one of the bank’s employees."; "A good driver is one who drives carefully."impersonalindefinitepronoun

2. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.Examples: "She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other."; "I am one of the few women who've climbed Everest."; "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."impersonalpronounsometimeswith-definite-article

3. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).Examples: "One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.  One shouldn’t be too quick to judge."; "My neighbor talks to one like a teacher."; "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."Synonyms: generic youindefinitepersonalpronoun

4. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.Examples: ""driver", noun: one who drives."pronoun

1. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by contextExamples: "I need some ones to make change."Synonyms: singleUS

2. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by contextExamples: "It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs."; "The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one."; "It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three."

3. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context

4. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by contextExamples: "Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?"

5. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by contextExamples: "I had a quick one after work"; "There’s nothing better than drinking a cold one when the weather’s boiling outside"

6. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by contextExamples: "Just a quick one before work"

1. (transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.Examples: "The question, of course, evokes discernment, not dogma, but we should note that the "unknowing" involves intellectual knowledge, whereas the problematic of being "oned" involves experiential knowledge."; "And both shall be oned in eternal happiness."; "Knit and oned to God human beings are irrevocably in relationship with the divine."transitive

1. (Singlish, less common) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.Examples: "The bird that make a lot of noise one is gone already."ManglishSinglishuncommon