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ALL meanings of at one

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  • noun at one in a state of agreement or harmony 3
  • noun at one of the same opinion; in accord 3
  • adjective at one being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single: one woman; one nation; one piece of cake. 1
  • adjective at one being a person, thing, or individual instance or member of a number, kind, group, or category indicated: one member of the party. 1
  • adjective at one existing, acting, or considered as a single unit, entity, or individual. 1
  • adjective at one of the same or having a single kind, nature, or condition: We belong to one team; We are of one resolve. 1
  • adjective at one noting some indefinite day or time in the future: You will see him one day. 1
  • adjective at one a certain (often used in naming a person otherwise unknown or undescribed): One John Smith was chosen. 1
  • adjective at one being a particular, unique, or only individual, item, or unit: I'm looking for the one adviser I can trust. 1
  • adjective at one noting some indefinite day or time in the past: We all had dinner together one evening last week. 1
  • adjective at one of no consequence as to the character, outcome, etc.; the same: It's all one to me whether they go or not. 1
  • noun at one the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity. 1
  • noun at one a symbol of this number, as 1 or I. 1
  • noun at one a single person or thing: If only problems would come one at a time! 1
  • noun at one a die face or a domino face having one pip. 1
  • noun at one a one-dollar bill: to change a five-dollar bill for five ones. 1
  • noun at one (initial capital letter) Neoplatonism. the ultimate reality, seen as a central source of being by whose emanations all entities, spiritual and corporeal, have their existence, the corporeal ones containing the fewest of the emanations. 1
  • idioms at one at one, in a state of agreement; of one opinion. united in thought or feeling; attuned: He felt at one with his Creator. 1
  • idioms at one one and all, everyone: They came, one and all, to welcome him home. 1
  • idioms at one one by one, singly and successively: One by one the children married and moved away. 1
  • idioms at one one for the road. road (def 10). 1
  • adverb at one at one o'clock 1
  • noun at one One as an indefinite pronoun meaning “any person indefinitely, anyone” is more formal than you, which is also used as an indefinite pronoun with the same sense:  One  (or you) should avoid misconceptions. One (or you) can correct this fault in three ways. When the construction requires that the pronoun be repeated, either one or he or he or she is used; he or he or she is the more common in the United States:  Wherever one looks, he  (or he or she) finds evidence of pollution. In speech or informal writing, a form of they sometimes occurs:  Can one read this without having their emotions stirred?   In constructions of the type one of those who (or that or which), the antecedent of who is considered to be the plural noun or pronoun, correctly followed by a plural verb:  He is one of those people who work for the government.  Yet the feeling that one is the antecedent is so strong that a singular verb is commonly found in all types of writing:  one of those people who works for the government.  When one is preceded by only in such a construction, the singular verb is always used:  the only one of her sons who visits her in the hospital.   The substitution of one for I, a typically British use, is usually regarded as an affectation in the United States. See also he1, they.   1
  • preposition at one (often with with) In harmony or unity. 0
  • preposition at one (often with with) In agreement, unanimous, of the same opinion. 0
  • preposition at one (archaic) Into a state of harmony, friendship or reconciliation. 0
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