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Definition: One And Only |
One And OnlyAdjective1. 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 OnlySynonyms: matchless (adj), nonpareil (adj), one and only(a) (adj), one(a) (adj), peerless (adj), unmatchable (adj), unmatched (adj), unrivaled (adj), unrivalled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: One And Only |
| English words defined with "one and only": matchless ♦ nonpareil ♦ one ♦ peerless ♦ unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "one and only": monadic operator ♦ Steiner's triple systems ♦ unary operator. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Store, the one and only, Saw Pit, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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Expression using "one and only": his only one and only object. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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 |
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| 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 singurã şi unicã lui preocupare (his only one and only object). (various references) уникальный (sui generis, unique), один единственный. (various references) 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) яeke-tдk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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