once

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English

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English numbers (edit)
10
 ←  0 1 2  → [a], [b] 10  → 
    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
    Group collective: onesome
    Multipart collective: 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English ones (genitive of on (“one”) used adverbally), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ānes (“of one”), genitive of ān (“one”). Compare Old Saxon ēnes (“once”), Old High German einēst (“once”) (German einst). More at one (including regarding the development of the pronunciation) and -s.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wŭn(t)s, IPA(key): /wʌn(t)s/
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  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌns

Adverb

once (not comparable)

  1. (frequency) One and only one time.
    I have only once eaten pizza.
  2. (temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past.
    He was once the most handsome man around.  I once had a bicycle just like that one.
    Wang notes that flowers have rooted and grow in the area once covered with ice.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
      Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
    • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
      The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
    • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
      Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
  3. (mathematics) Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one.
    Once three is three.
  4. As soon as.
    • 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
      In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
  5. (obsolete) At a future time.
    • (Can we date this quote by Bishop Joseph Hall and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) Contemplations.
      The wisdom of God thought fit to acquaint David with that court which we shall once govern.

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Translations

as soon as — see as soon as
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See also

Conjunction

once

  1. As soon as; when; after.
    We'll get a move on once we find the damn car keys!
    Once you have obtained the elven bow, return to the troll bridge and trade it for the sleeping potion.
    Once he is married, he will be able to claim the inheritance.
    • 2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.

Translations

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ūndecim.

Numeral

once

  1. eleven

Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers
 <  10 11 12  > 
    Cardinal : once
    Ordinal : decimoprimeru

Etymology

From Latin ūndecim.

Numeral

once (indeclinable)

  1. eleven

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin uncia.

Noun

once f (plural onces)

  1. ounce (avoirdupois ounce)
  2. (figuratively, by extension) a little bit

Etymology 2

From Old French lonce which became l'once (la + once), itself from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lynx, ultimately from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), or possibly borrowed from Italian lonza.

Noun

once f (plural onces)

  1. snow leopard

Anagrams

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin uncia.

Noun

once f (plural oncis)

  1. ounce

Galician

Galician cardinal numbers
 <  10 11 12  > 
    Cardinal : once
    Ordinal : undécimo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese onze, from Latin ūndecim.

Pronunciation

Numeral

once (indeclinable)

  1. eleven

Italian

Noun

once f

  1. plural of oncia

Anagrams

Middle English

Adverb

once

  1. Alternative form of ones

Spanish

Spanish numbers (edit)
 ←  10 11 12  → 
    Cardinal: once
    Ordinal: undécimo, decimoprimero, décimo primero
    Apocopated ordinal: decimoprimer, décimo primer
    Ordinal abbreviation: 11.º
    Multiplier: undécuplo
    Fractional: onceavo, undécimo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 11

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈonθe/ [ˈõn̟.θe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈonse/ [ˈõn.se]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish onze, ondze, from Latin ūndecim.

Numeral

once

  1. eleven

Etymology 2

Snacks were typically taken at 11 am.

Noun

once f (plural onces)

  1. (Latin America) elevenses, snack (bread with tea or coffee)
    tomar las once
    have elevenses

Further reading

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