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ones
ones pl (plural only)
- (sports) A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).
- (Britain, prison slang) The cells located on the ground floor.
Pronoun[edit]
ones
- plural of one
- 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.
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ones
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- once, onis, onies, ons, onys, onyes
- anes, ans, anis, anys (Northern)
- anes (early)
- wons, wones, ʒons (late)
Etymology[edit]
From Old English ānes (“once”), from ān (“one”).
Adverb[edit]
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Cardinal: oon Ordinal: first Adverbial: ones Multiplier: sengle Distributive: single |
ones
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “ō̆nes, adv.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Volapük[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ones
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