# ones

Pronunciation: say "WUNZ" /wʌnz/

## Noun

1. Plural of one. — plural of one
   - Simple: Plural of one. Use this when you mean more than one of the digit or number.
   - _She lined up two ones to make the number eleven._
   - _The teacher asked the class to add up the ones before the tens._
3. A club's senior or first team, rather than its reserve team.
   - Simple: A sports club's main team, not its backup or reserve team.
   - _The ones secured promotion after an unbeaten run through the spring._
   - _Two reserve players earned a regular place in the ones this year._
5. The prison cells located on the ground floor of a wing. *(slang, UK)*
   - Simple: In a British prison, the cells on the ground floor.
   - _Inmates on the ones could hear the gates clatter shut every evening._
   - _After a good report, he was moved off the ones to a quieter landing above._

## Pronoun

2. Plural of one. — plural of one
   - Simple: Plural of one. Use it to point to several things already named, like the red ones.
   - _The ripe apples were gone, so she took the smaller ones instead._
   - _Of all the photos, the candid ones turned out best._

## Verb

4. Third-person singular simple present indicative of one. — third-person singular simple present indicative of one
   - Simple: The form of one used in the present with he, she, it, or a singular noun such as the dog or water.

## Pronoun

6. Obsolete form of one's. *(obsolete)* — Obsolete form of one's.
   - Simple: Old spelling of one's. It shows that something belongs to a person in general.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ones (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).