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one time

one time adverb: used to introduce a narrative concerning a past event.

Adverb

one time (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Used to introduce a narrative concerning a past event
    • Her eyes would suddenly become fixed on the other side of the room, and for a moment or two she would seem bewildered and absent. One time I was watching her in this state, when her husband took me by the arm and said, 'Come away, Tom.'1843, George Payne Rainsford James, The Commissioner: Or, De Lunatico Inquirendo, page 186
    • One time we cotch four hunderd and fifty thousand at one haul.1855, John Lewis, New Hope: Or, The Rescue. A Tale of the Great Kanawha, page 167
    Synonyms:
    once

one time meaning in Kannada

one time in Kannada

ಒರ್ಪೊಳ್ತು, ಒಪ್ಪೊತ್ತು, ಒಳ್ಪೊತ್ತು, ಒಂದುಹೊತ್ತು, ಒಚ್ಚೊತ್ತು, ಒಚ್ಚಿಹೊತ್ತು

Examples of one time in a sentence

  • One time I untied the boat as we were leaving, started to yell Lines off, deckhand on […].2008, Benjamin Drevlow, Bend with the Knees: And Other Love Advice from My Father, page 14:
  • One time he hadn't held onto himself—the time he worked for the Sedona cattle people up on Oak Creek—and it was the reason he was here.2009, Elmore Leonard, Forty Lashes Less One, page 24:
  • So, one time, he didn't come back, and didn't come back, and his dinner got cold.2020, Christine Trueman, See You Again, One Time in Saint Helena:

Synonyms of one time

Questions about one time

What does one time mean?
One time means used to introduce a narrative concerning a past event.
What is one time in Kannada?
One time in Kannada is ಒರ್ಪೊಳ್ತು, ಒಪ್ಪೊತ್ತು, ಒಳ್ಪೊತ್ತು. See One time meaning in Kannada.
How do you use one time in a sentence?
One time I untied the boat as we were leaving, started to yell Lines off, deckhand on […].
What part of speech is one time?
One time is an adverb.

Words near one time in the dictionary

  1. one thing or another
  2. one third
  3. one thousand
  4. one thousand and one
  5. one throat to choke
  6. one time
  7. one to begin, two to show, three to make ready, and four to go
  8. one to talk
  9. one too many
  10. one track mind
  11. one track minds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one time (page history and authors); one time (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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