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One can be a numeral, a pronoun, a noun or an adjective.
one used as a numeral:
- A numerical value equal to 1; the first number in the set of natural numbers (especially in number theory); the cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
"There is only one Earth." - The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
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one used as a pronoun:
- one thing (among a group of others); one member of a group
"The big one looks good." - any person (applying to people in general)
"One shouldn’t be too quick to judge."
A pronoun is a placeholder for a noun. Examples of pronouns are: them, he, they, it. Pronouns make sentences shorter and clearer since they replace nouns. For example, instead of saying 'Emily was happy, so Emily smiled.' you can say 'Emily was happy, so she smiled.' Learn more →
one used as a noun:
- The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- The digit or figure 1.
- A one-dollar bill.
- One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
one used as an adjective:
- Of a period of time, being particular; as, one morning, one year.
"One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries." - Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
"My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."" - Sole, only.
"He is the one man who can help you." - Whole, entire.
"Body and soul are not separate; they are one." - In agreement.
"We are one on the importance of learning." - The same.
"The two types look very different, but are one species." - Being a preeminent example.
"He is one hell of a guy." - Being an unknown person with the specified name.
"The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one "A. Lincoln"."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is one?
- Numeral usage: There is only one Earth.
- Numeral usage: In Western culture, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
- Numeral usage: One person, one vote.
- Pronoun usage: The big one looks good.
- Pronoun usage: I want the green one.
- Pronoun usage: One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.
- Pronoun usage: One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best to not let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.
- Adjective usage: One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.
- Adjective usage: My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."
- Adjective usage: He is the one man who can help you.
- Adjective usage: Body and soul are not separate; they are one.
- Adjective usage: We are one on the importance of learning.
- Adjective usage: The two types look very different, but are one species.
- Adjective usage: He is one hell of a guy.
- Adjective usage: The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one "A. Lincoln".
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of one are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of one, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).