i

Letter (1)

1. (letter, lowercase) The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

Numeral

1. (lowercase) The ninth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

Noun (1)

i (plural ies)

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.
   • the position of an i-dot (the dot of an i)
   • i-mutation, i-umlaut

Pronoun capitalized: I

I (first person singular subject personal pronoun, objective me, possessive my, possessive pronoun mine, reflexive myself)

1. (first-person, personal, pronoun, singular, subjective) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
   • I drove my sister and myself to school.
   • […]It ill beſeemes a knight of gentle ſort, / Such as ye haue him boaſted, to beguyle / A ſimple maide, and worke ſo hainous tort, / In ſhame of knighthood, as I largely can report.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 414
2. (first-person, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, singular, subjective) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
   • Mom drove my sister and I to school.
   • Sweet Baſſanio, My ſhips haue all miſcarried, my Creditors grow cruell, my eſtate is very low: my bond to the Iew is forfet, and ſince in paying it, it is impoſſible I ſhould liue, all debts are cleered betweene you and I if I might but ſee you at my death.c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act...

Noun (2) capitalized: I

I (countable and uncountable, plural I's)

1. (metaphysics) The ego.
   • They are called men, becauſe each of them poſſeſſeth the whole man, though not wholly. There are by their means two I’s in every believer, Rom. vii. 15. For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. There is not one part of the man that is in Chriſt...a. 1733, Thomas Boston, edited by [Thomas Boston the younger], Sermons and Discourses on Several Important Subjects in Divinity. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] William Gray, […], published 1753, page...
   • In other words, he said: “I have two natures. I have a flesh nature, an outside nature, and that keeps sinning; and then I have another nature—an inside, a spiritual nature—and that does not like sinning; and with my heart-power, my conscience-power, my love-power, with the power of the divine...1873, Henry Ward Beecher, “Paul”, in The Great Bible Renowns, page 45

   Synonyms:

   me

Letter (2) capitalized: I

1. (letter, uppercase) The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

Noun (3) capitalized: I

I (countable and uncountable, plural Is)

1. (US, abbreviation, roadway) Abbreviation of interstate.
   • I-95 begins at Houlton, Maine and terminates at Miami, Florida, connecting numerous major cities in the East Coast.
   • Drivers like the idea of increasing traffic flow and reducing congestion on the portion of I-80 between Davis and West Sacramento.2024 May 17, Orko Manna, “Toll lane project on Interstate 80 between West Sacramento and Davis gets green light”, in KCRA, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2025
2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of instrumental case.
3. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of instruction.
4. (US, abbreviation) Abbreviation of independent.

Interjection capitalized: I

1. (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of aye.