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One And Only

Definition: One And Only

One And Only

Adjective

1. Eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: One And Only

Synonyms: matchless (adj), nonpareil (adj), one and only(a) (adj), one(a) (adj), peerless (adj), unmatchable (adj), unmatched (adj), unrivaled (adj), unrivalled (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: One And Only

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Identity

Facsimile; (copy); homoousia: alter ego; (similar); ipsissima verba; (exactness); same; self, very, one and the same; very thing, actual thing; real McCoy; no other; one and only; in the flesh.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: One And Only

English words defined with "one and only": matchlessnonpareilonepeerlessunmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled. (references)
Specialty definitions using "one and only": monadic operatorSteiner's triple systemsunary operator. (references)

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Modern Usage: One And Only

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Allow me to introduce the one and only Doc Holiday. (Tombstone; writing credit: Kevin Jarre.)

You finally get your one and only marriage and you don't accept because you see yourself in a Volvo commercial? (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I got red, I got green, I got yellow I'm out of purple, but I do have one Gold Circle coin left the condom of champions the one and only nothin' is gettin' through this sucker. (Pretty Woman; writing credit: J.F. Lawton)

My one and only noble point may be found in my bodily appendage, whom I will consult democratically as he is rather whimsical. (Marquis; writing credit: Roland Topor; Henri Xhonneux)

He's the one and only. (The Warriors; writing credit: Sol Yurick; David Shaber)

Lyrics

That you are my one and only. (Every Heartbeat; performing artist: Amy Grant)

If you lose your one and only (Neon Moon; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

To be his lover and one and only (Pretty Girl; performing artist: Jon B.)

There's just one and only, (I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That); performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Be my baby now. MY ONE AND ONLY BABY ("Be My Baby"; performing artist: The Ronettes)

Movie/TV Titles

The One and Only (2002)

VH1 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin (2001)

The One and Only (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: One And Only

DomainTitle

Books

  • Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your One and Only (reference)

  • The One and Only, Super-Duper, Golly-Whopper, Jim Dandy, Really-Handy, Clock-Tock-Stopper (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: One And Only

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Store, the one and only, Saw Pit, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: One And Only

AuthorQuotation

Decimus Junius Juvenal

Nobility is the one and only virtue.

Marshall Field

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: One And Only

Expression using "one and only": his only one and only object. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: One And Only

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

one and only

350

one and only personals

26

one and only genuine original family band

12

jesus the one and only

6

one and only dating

4

one and only one

3

one and only com

3

the one and only love album

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: One And Only

Language Translations for "one and only"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏وحيد (alone, exclusive, lone, lonesome, one, only, private, single, solitary, unique). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

不二法門 (the one and only way, the only proper course to take). (various references)

   

Czech

  

jedineèný (golden, incomparable, nonesuch, peerless, singular, unique, unparalleled, unrepeatable, unrivalled). (various references)

   

French

  

le seul. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μοναδικόσ (monadic, monadical, singular, sui genesis, unique). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

páratlanul álló. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"一無二 (unique). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゆいいつむに (unique). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oneay anday onlyay

   

Romanian

  

singurã şi unicã lui preocupare (his only one and only object). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уникальный (sui generis, unique), один единственный. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tek (exclusive, fellow, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, individual, lone, mono-, odd, one, only, single, singular, sole, solitary, uneven, uni-, unique), biricik (dearie, deary, only, sole, unique, well-beloved), bir tek (nothing but, nothing else, only, solely, solitarily, solitary), bütün (aggregate, all, all out, all over the, altogether, at all, clear, complement, complete, continuum, entire, entirely, every, everything, gross, holo-, integral, omni-, out and out, overall, pan-, quite, round, sheer, solid, the total, the whole, total, totality, unbroken, undivided, utter, whole, wholly). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

яeke-tдk. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: One And Only

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-n-n-o-o-y"

-3 letters: annoyed, anodyne, noonday.

-4 letters: adenyl, anyone, loaned, looney, noodle, noyade.

-5 letters: alone, annoy, anode, anole, delay, donna, donne, dooly, doyen, dynel, eland, laden, layed, leady, loden, looed, looey, loony, naled, nanny, nodal, nonyl, nylon, odeon, odyle, olden, yodel, yodle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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