one day

English

Pronunciation

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Adverb

one day

1. (set phrase) At some unspecified time in the future.

   One day I shall upgrade my software, but not just yet.

   Synonyms: one of these days, someday, some day

2. At some unspecified time in the past.

   One day I was playing with a girl from my class.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 11, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one,‎ day.

   Synonym: once

Translations

at unspecified time in the future

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 某一天 (mǒu yī tiān), 有一天 (zh) (yǒu yī tiān), 一天 (zh) (yī tiān)

• Finnish: jonakin päivänä, lähipäivinä, joskus (fi)
• French: un jour (fr)
• Georgian: როდისმე (rodisme)
• German: eines Tages (de)
• Greek: κάποια μέρα (kápoia méra)
• Italian: un giorno o l'altro
• Japanese: いつか (ja) (itsuka)
• Korean: 언젠가 (ko) (eonjenga)
• Latin: olim
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• Macedonian: еден ден (eden den)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: en gang, en dag

  Nynorsk: ein gong, ein dag,

• Portuguese: algum dia
• Russian: одна́жды (ru) (odnáždy), когда́-нибу́дь (ru) (kogdá-nibúdʹ), (rare)когда́-то (ru) (kogdá-to)
• Scottish Gaelic: latha de na làithean, lath'-eigin
• Spanish: algún día (es)
• Tagalog: balang araw
• Tamil: ஒரு நால் (oru nāl)
• Turkish: bir gün

at unspecified time in the past

• Arabic: فِي يَوْم مِن اَلْأَيَّام (fī yawm min al-ʔayyām)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一天 (zh) (yī tiān)

• Finnish: eräänä päivänä
• French: un jour (fr)
• German: eines Tages (de)
• Japanese: ある日 (aru hi)
• Korean: 어느 날 (eoneu nal), 하루는 (haruneun)
• Latin: olim
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• Maore Comorian: suku class 9
• Portuguese: uma vez
• Russian: одна́жды (ru) (odnáždy), когда́-то (ru) (kogdá-to), ка́к-то (ru) (kák-to)
• Scottish Gaelic: latha a bha seo, latha de na làithean
• Serbo-Croatian: jednoga dana
• Tagalog: isang araw
• Tamil: பின்னால் (ta) (piṉṉāl)
• Turkish: bir gün

Further reading

one day on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• day one, noyade