ones

See also: -ones and one's

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wʌnz/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnz

Noun

ones

1. plural of one

Noun

ones pl (plural only)

1. (sports) A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).
2. (UK, 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, 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 (date written), William Temple, “Heads, Designed for an Essay on Conversation”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. […], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published 1701, →OCLC, page 327:

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

Verb

ones

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of one

See also

• 1s
• on ones

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈo.nəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈo.nes]

Noun

ones

1. plural of ona

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

	1	2  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: on, oo     Ordinal: first     Adverbial: ene, enes, ones     Multiplier: sengle     Distributive: sengle

Alternative forms

• once, onis, onies, ons, onys, onyes, oones
• anes, ans, anis, anys (northern)
• anes (Early Middle English)
• wons, wones, ȝons (Late Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English ānes, a modification of ǣnes (“once”) after ān (“one”, Middle English on); thus by surface analysis, on (“one”) +‎ -es (adverbial suffix). Compare enes (“once”), from the unmodified Old English form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ̝ːnəs/, /ˈɔnəs/, /-is/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ̝ːns/, /ˈɔns/ (syncopated)

Adverb

ones

1. once (one time)

   Synonyms: ene, enes

2. At any time, ever:
   1. once (formerly)

      Synonym: enes

   2. one day (in the future)

Descendants

• English: once
• Scots: ance, aince, eence, anes, anis, yance, yence, yince, yinst, wance, wanst
• Yola: oanes

References

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

Volapük

Pronoun

ones

1. dative plural of on