once
IPA: wˈʌns
noun
- (fandom slang) A fan of the Korean girl band Twice.
- Obsolete form of ounce. [An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.]
adverb
- (frequency) One and only one time.
- (temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past.
- (chiefly obsolete) At any time; ever.
- (obsolete) One day, someday.
- (mathematics) Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one.
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Examples of "once" in Sentences
- _ _Yes, if it please you, once, and never but once_.
- Perhaps once, _once_, I might; but it is too late now.
- Oh, papa, dear papa, will you not let me -- will you not kiss me once, _just once_?
- Never but once -- that uneffaceable _once_ -- had Agatha seen her husband look as he looked now.
- Not once -- not _once_, mind you -- had a single one of these great brains referred to the obvious.
- Even now, once in a while, she -- but, thank heaven, not _once_ since meeting Lord Raygan; she was sure of that.
- "The Dutch have tired me out; and I intended to fight with them once, _only once_, and to drive them over the Vaal."
- You will get this, father, when perhaps it is too late; but if you have any pity, any love left for your boy, come to me once more -- _once more_, father!
- I had already encountered some of these creatures, once during my moonlight flight from the Leopard-man, and once during my pursuit by Moreau on the previous day.
- Mrs. Brown says it was all most awful an 'she knows from her son's face as he thinks it was all because she stopped stirrin' sometimes durin 'the two hours an' she declares with tears as she never stopped stirrin 'once -- not _once_.
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