one by one
one by one adverb: individually in succession.
Adverb
one by one (not comparable)
- Individually in succession.
- The passengers escaped through the hatch one by one.
- The walls are built up stone by stone / The fields divided one by one1985, R.E.M., “Driver 8”, in Fables of the Reconstruction
- Synonyms:
- one at a time, one after the other
one by one meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
one by one in Hindi
- individually
- एक एक करके ek ek karake
one by one in Tamil
- ஒவ்வொருவராக, ஒவ்வொன்றாக
one by one in Urdu
- جداجدا
one by one in Telugu
- individually
- ఒకటొకటిగా okaṭokaṭigā
More languagesFewer languages
- one by one in Sanskrit
- एकैक ékaika, एकशस् ekaśas, एकैकशस् ekaikaśas
- one by one in Arabic
- بِالتَّرْتِيب bi-t-tartīb, فَرْدًا فَرْدًا fardan fardan
- one by one in Persian
- یکی یکی yeki yeki, یکبهیک yek-be-yek
- one by one in Vietnamese
- lần lượt
Synonyms of one by one
Questions about one by one
- What does one by one mean?
- One by one means individually in succession.
- What is one by one in Hindi?
- One by one in Hindi is एक एक करके (ek ek karake). See One by one meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is one by one?
- One by one is an adverb.
Words near one by one in the dictionary
- one bad apple can spoil the barrel
- one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
- one bad turn deserves another
- one big happy family
- one brick short of a full load
- one by one
- one can dish it out, but one can't take it
- one can dish it, but one can't take it
- one can run but one can't hide
- one can't break a stick in a bundle
- one can't break a twig in a bundle
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Adapted from Wiktionary: one by one (page history and authors); one by one (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); one by one (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); एकशस् (Sanskrit) (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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