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Definition of Number one
1. Noun. A reference to yourself or myself etc.; 'take care of number one' means to put your own interests first.
2. Noun. The first or highest in an ordering or series. "He wanted to be the first"
3. Noun. The first element in a countable series. "The first of the month"
Definition of Number one
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) First; foremost; best. ¹
2. Noun. the most important person, notably who is in charge ¹
3. Noun. someone who is top of a ranking, who is ranked first. ¹
4. Noun. oneself, being considered foremost, as by an egoist ¹
5. Noun. (context: childish euphemistic) Urine; urination. ¹
6. Noun. (music) the single that has sold the most in a given period. ¹
7. Noun. (soccer) The main goalkeeper of a team, so-called because they wear the number 1 on the back of their kit. ¹
8. Noun. (cricket) The batsman who opens the batting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Number One
Literary usage of Number one
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commission (1897)
"... and said points are fixed as follows : Point A is distant northerly nineteen
hundred and eighty-one (1981) feet from reference line number one, ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"TO TAKE CARE OF number one = to look after one's own interests. 1838. DICKENS,
Oliver Twist, xlii. Some conjurors say that number three is the magic number, ..."
3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"experiment eight; but honey was placed, not only in the striped box, but also in
red box number one and green box number two. When the experiment was about ..."
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