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one and only

one and only adjective: unique, one of a kind.

Adjective

one and only (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Unique, one of a kind.
    • Please welcome the one and only Bruce Springsteen!

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    • Chesney Hawkes entertained the punters at half-time, and it was Wales' One and Only who was withdrawn ahead of the second-half as Brennan Johnson replaced Gareth Bale who had made just one successful pass in the first-half.2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore,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

one and only meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Malay

one and only in Hindi

one and only
केवल keval

one and only in Urdu

one and only
کیول keval

one and only in Malayalam

unique
ഒരേയൊരു orēyoru, ഒരൊറ്റ oroṟṟa

one and only in Malay

unique
bitara

Forms of one and only

pluralone and onlies

Questions about one and only

What does one and only mean?
One and only means unique, one of a kind.
What is one and only in Hindi?
One and only in Hindi is केवल (keval). See One and only meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is one and only?
One and only can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near one and only in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: one and only (page history and authors); केवल (Hindi) (page history and authors); کیول (Urdu) (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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