onesome

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English

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    Cardinal: one
    Ordinal: first
    Latinate ordinal: primary
    Reverse order ordinal: last
    Latinate reverse order ordinal: ultimate
    Adverbial: one time, once
    Multiplier: onefold
    Latinate multiplier: single
    Distributive: singly
    Germanic collective: onesome
    Collective of n parts: singlet, singleton
    Greek or Latinate collective: monad
    Greek collective prefix: mono-
    Latinate collective prefix: uni-
    Fractional: whole
    Elemental: singlet, singleton
    Greek prefix: proto-
    Number of musicians: solo
    Number of years: year

Etymology

From one +‎ -some.

Noun

onesome (plural onesomes)

  1. (rare) A solitary person or thing.
    When Joe and Suzie left, the threesome became a onesome.
    • 2011, John Updike, Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf, page 50:
      The remote innocence of the time may be read not only in the sub—dollar greens fee but in the surreal presence of three solo golfers— “onesomes”—spaced out on a public course.

Usage notes

This word is normally only used in comparison with a more common term like twosome.

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