Synonyms for single


Grammar : Adj
Spell : sing-guhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪŋ gəl

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Définition of single

Origin :
  • early 14c., "unmarried," from Old French sengle, sangle "alone, unaccompanied; simple, unadorned," from Latin singulus "one, one to each, individual, separate" (usually in plural singuli "one by one"), from sim- (stem of simplus; see simple) + diminutive suffix. Meaning "consisting of one unit, individual, unaccompanied by others" is from late 14c. Meaning "undivided" is from 1580s. Single-parent (adj.) is attested from 1966.
  • adj alone, distinct
  • adj not married
Example sentences :
  • It is a single round, low tower, shaped like the tomb of Cacilia Metella.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • He was rich and he was willing to take the daughter without a single penny.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • He had united them and he had made them the first of all nations to worship a single God.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • The bare reference to a single consideration will be conclusive on this point.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Their ignorance, with the single exception of horse-flesh, is appalling.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • The deep gloom that had overshadowed the land had been relieved by one single ray.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • In our own single manhood to be bold, Fortressed in conscience and impregnable.'
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • But, O my dear, the single life is by far the most eligible to me: indeed it is.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Write to please yourself, as if not a single reader existed.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

Antonyms for single

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