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one and onlies

one and onlies is the plural of one and only.

Meaning of one and only

Noun

one and only (plural one and onlies)

  1. (idiomatic) Only love, sole sweetheart.
    • Will you be my one and only?
  2. The most talented or famous person (within in a specific context)
    • Chesney Hawkes entertained the punters at half-time, and it was Wales' One and Only who was withdrawn ahead of the second-half as Brennan Johnson replaced Gareth Bale who had made just one successful pass in the first-half.2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline

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Questions about one and onlies

What is one and onlies the plural of?
One and onlies is the plural of one and only.

Words near one and onlies in the dictionary

  1. one and done
  2. one and dones
  3. one and nines
  4. one and one
  5. one and ones
  6. one and onlies
  7. one and only
  8. one and out
  9. one and the same
  10. one another
  11. one another's

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one and onlies (page history and authors); one and only (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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