ones

See also: -ones and one's

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wʌnz/

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Noun

ones

1. plural of one

ones pl (plural only)

1. (sports) A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).
2. (Britain, prison slang) The cells located on the ground floor.

   Coordinate terms: twos, threes, fours, fives

Pronoun

ones

1. plural of one
2. Obsolete form of one's.
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942, page 8:

     Omnium rerum viciſſitudo eſt, ones falling, is anothers riſing, […]

   • 1648, A VVay unto True Christian Unitie: The Worship of God in Spirit and in Truth: […], London: […] John Legatt, […], page 43:

     Not to leane unto ones own underſtanding: but in all ones wayes to acknowledge the Lord, and he will direct ones paths. Not to be wiſe in ones own eyes: but to feare the Lord, and to depart from evill. To bridle ones tongue: […]

   • a. 1700, William Temple, “Heads, Designed for an Essay on Conversation”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. [...], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published 1701, OCLC 23640974, page 327:

     Pride and Roughneſs may turn ones Humour, but Flattery turns ones Stomach.

Anagrams

• ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, SONE, Sone, eons, neos, noes, nose, sone

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Catalan

Noun

ones

1. plural of ona

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• once, onis, onies, ons, onys, onyes
• anes, ans, anis, anys (Northern)
• anes (early)
• wons, wones, ʒons (late)

Etymology

From Old English ānes (“once”), from ān (“one”).

Adverb

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

	1
Cardinal: oon     Ordinal: first     Adverbial: ones     Multiplier: sengle     Distributive: single

ones

1. once

Descendants

• English: once
• Scots: ance, wance

References

• “ō̆nes, adv.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Volapük

Pronoun

ones

1. dative plural of on