once
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1.0
- adverb
- /wʌns/
:
una vez
- Realistically, I probably work out like once every two weeks.
- once a day
- once a week
- once a month
Now you turn the crank once, twice, twice.
- Now you turn the crank once, twice, twice.
- I may have done that once or thrice.
- At least that's once a week for half a year.
- When they always change school once and oftentimes twice.
- weekend, weekend, you know, Guy told me once. He's like the weekends weekend,
- And then I got, you know, once a week therapy, amazing people.
- You know what a wise person once said, is it me?
- In the other one, you drink once every two months.
- I tried this once at the hands on it.
- It's had to have happened at least once on everything.
Examples
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The researcher saw each child for 15-20 minutes once a week for eight weeks.
Academic text (1999) -
Maybe for once in his life, the old man was right.
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The official story was he met him once and then later agreed.
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And so I went once a week for years.
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You will stop this fighting at once and fall in.
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When he was in Chicago, I usually saw him once, sometimes twice a week.
Fiction book (1990) -
Read through the text just once to see what's going on.
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I would certainly enjoy incorporating a question like this once a week to complement my instruction.
Academic text (2011) -
I visited my grandparents once last summer, and we had a wonderful time together.
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He only got to meet the famous author once, but that moment inspired him greatly.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To check something carefully before you do it to avoid mistakes
- Literature
To try again to face a difficult situation even after failing before
- Informal
Careful about doing something again because of a bad past experience
Compounds
How Often
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word once comes from the old English word ān and the simple word one, both meaning 'one', so it originally meant 'one time'. That's why when you say you did something once, you mean you did it 'on one occasion'.