once
adverb
[ wʌns ]
• on one occasion or for one time only.
• "they deliver once a week"
Similar:
on one occasion,
one time,
one single time,
Opposite:
twice,
many times,
• at some time in the past; formerly.
• "Gran had once been a famous singer"
Similar:
formerly,
previously,
in the past,
at one time,
at one point,
once upon a time,
on a former occasion,
on one occasion,
one time,
in one case,
time was when,
in days/times gone by,
back in the day,
in times past,
in the (good) old days,
long ago,
sometime,
erst,
erstwhile,
whilom,
in days/times of yore,
of yore,
• multiplied by one.
• "once two is two"
once
conjunction
• as soon as; when.
• "once the grapes were pressed, the juice was put into barrels"
Origin:
Middle English ones, genitive of one. The spelling change in the 16th century was in order to retain the unvoiced sound of the final consonant.
the once
• on one occasion only, as an exception.
• "he'd only met her the once"
