single
/ˈsɪŋɡəl/ adjective A2- Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. · Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?· The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.
- Not divided in parts. · The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
- Designed for the use of only one. · a single room
- Performed by one person, or one on each side. · a single combat
- Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other. · Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
- Having only one rank or row of petals.
- Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.
All my lines of thought lead me back invariably to the one basic question—why should an athletic man develop his frame upon so unnatural an instrument as a single dumb-bell?”
There was a single lamp over the gateway and a steady globe of light in the fatal study.
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