ones

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See also: -ones and one's

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wʌnz/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌnz

Noun

ones

  1. plural of one

Noun

ones pl (plural only)

  1. (sports) A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).
  2. (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the ground floor.
    Coordinate terms: twos, threes, fours, fives

Pronoun

ones

  1. plural of one
  2. Obsolete form of one's.
    • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, , London: [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N L and C B , →OCLC, page 8:
      Omnium rerum viciſſitudo eſt, ones falling, is anothers riſing, […]
    • 1648, A VVay unto True Christian Unitie: The Worship of God in Spirit and in Truth: , London: John Legatt, , page 43:
      Not to leane unto ones own underſtanding: but in all ones wayes to acknowledge the Lord, and he will direct ones paths. Not to be wiſe in ones own eyes: but to feare the Lord, and to depart from evill. To bridle ones tongue: […]
    • a. 1700 (date written), William Temple, “Heads, Designed for an Essay on Conversation”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. , London: Jonathan Swift,  Benjamin Tooke, , published 1701, →OCLC, page 327:
      Pride and Roughneſs may turn ones Humour, but Flattery turns ones Stomach.

Verb

ones

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of one

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Pronunciation

Noun

ones

  1. plural of ona

Middle English

Middle English numbers (edit)
1 2  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: oon, oo
    Ordinal: first
    Adverbial: ene, enes, ones
    Multiplier: sengle
    Distributive: sengle

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English ānes, a modification of ǣnes (“once”) after ān (“one”, Middle English oon). Compare enes (“once”), from the unmodified Old English form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔːn(ə)s/, /ˈɔn(ə)s/

Adverb

ones

  1. once (one time)
    Synonyms: ene, enes
  2. At any time, ever:
    1. once (formerly)
      Synonym: enes
    2. one day (in the future)

Descendants

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Pronoun

ones

  1. dative plural of on
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