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onefold

onefold adjective: constituting or being indicative of a single aspect or theme.

Adjective

onefold (not comparable)

  1. Constituting or being indicative of a single aspect or theme.
  2. Consisting of a single undivided part; whole; complete.
    • There the soul is onefold, pure and chaste, and empty of all things.2005, Boeve, Geybels, Van den Bossche, Encountering transcendence
  3. Simple, plain, straightforward.
    • [Her] object was simple enough; but it was too simple—too onefold (if I may borrow an expressive word from my native tongue: ae-fauld we write it in Scotch) for the apprehension of ordinary persons[.]1875, Mrs. Oliphant, Whiteladies
  4. Singular, as opposite to plural.
    • Ye see how ready men are to misconstrue and pervert the onefold meaning of the Lord.1844, Robert Rollock, Select works of Robert Rollock

onefold meaning in Punjabi

onefold in Punjabi

onefold; single-layered
ਇਕਹਿਰਾ ikahirā

Antonyms of onefold

Origin of onefold

From Middle English onfold, anfald (“single, simple, honest, onefold”), from Old English ānfeald (“single, simple”, literally “onefold”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainfald, from Proto-Germanic *ainafalþaz (“onefold, simple”), equivalent to one + -fold. Cognate with Dutch eenvoud (“simplicity, easiness”), German Einfalt (“simplicity”) and einfach (“simple”), Icelandic einfaldur (“simple”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐍃 (ainfalþs, “simple”). More at one, -fold.

Words formed from onefold

Questions about onefold

What does onefold mean?
Onefold means constituting or being indicative of a single aspect or theme.
What is onefold in Punjabi?
Onefold in Punjabi is ਇਕਹਿਰਾ (ikahirā). See Onefold meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is onefold?
Onefold is an adjective.

Words near onefold in the dictionary

  1. onedimensional
  2. onee-chan
  3. onee-chans
  4. onee-san
  5. onee-sans
  6. onefold
  7. onefoldness
  8. oneg
  9. Onega
  10. onegite
  11. Onego

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onefold (page history and authors); ਇਕਹਿਰਾ (Punjabi) (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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