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onlies

onlies is the plural of only.

Meaning of only

Noun

only (plural onlys or onlies)

  1. An only child.
    • Sometimes, secondborns marry onlys and the conflicts are similar.1995, Don Martin, Maggie Martin, Pat Jeffers, Is Your Family Making You Fat?, page 101

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Phrases with onlies

Questions about onlies

What is onlies the plural of?
Onlies is the plural of only.

Words near onlies in the dictionary

  1. Onley
  2. Onleys
  3. onlie
  4. onlier
  5. onliers
  6. onlies
  7. onliest
  8. online
  9. online banking
  10. online date
  11. online dated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onlies (page history and authors); 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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