one day

English

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Adverb

one day

1. (set phrase) At some unspecified time in the future.

   Synonyms: one of these days, some day; see also Thesaurus:one day

   One day I shall upgrade my software, but not just yet.

2. At some unspecified time in the past.

   Synonym: once

   One day I was playing with a girl from my class.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one,‎ day.

   You can stay one day or two.

Translations

at unspecified time in the future

• Arabic: مَرَّةً (ar) (marratan), يَوْمًا (yawman)
• Belarusian: не́калі (njékali), калі́-не́будзь (kalí-njébudzʹ)
• Bengali: একদিন (bn) (ekdin)
• Catalan: un dia m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 某一天 (mǒu yī tiān), 有一天 (zh) (yǒu yī tiān), 一天 (zh) (yī tiān)

• Czech: někdy (cs)
• East Central German: aanstoochs
• Esperanto: iam (eo)
• Finnish: jonakin päivänä, joskus (fi)
• French: un jour (fr)
• Georgian: როდისმე (rodisme)
• German: eines Tages (de)
• Greek: κάποια μέρα (kápoia méra)
• Hungarian: egy napon, egy szép napon, egyszer majd, majd valamikor
• Italian: un giorno o l'altro
• Japanese: いつか (ja) (itsuka)
• Korean: 언젠가 (ko) (eonjen'ga)
• Latin: olim (la)
• Macedonian: еден ден (eden den)
• Malayalam: ഒരു ദിവസം (oru divasaṁ), ഒരിക്കൽ (ml) (orikkal)
• Maltese: jum fost l-oħrajn
• Middle English: ones
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: en gang, en dag

  Nynorsk: ein gong, ein dag

• Persian: یک روز (yek ruz), یکروز (fa) (yekruz)
• Polish: kiedyś (pl), pewnego dnia
• Portuguese: algum dia
• Romanian: într-o zi
• Russian: одна́жды (ru) (odnáždy), когда́-нибу́дь (ru) (kogdá-nibúdʹ), когда́-то (ru) (kogdá-to)
• Scottish Gaelic: latha de na làithean, lath'-eigin
• Slovak: niekedy
• Spanish: algún día (es)
• Swedish: en vacker dag (sv)
• Tagalog: balang-araw
• Tamil: ஒரு நால் (oru nāl)
• Turkish: bir gün
• Ukrainian: коли́сь (kolýsʹ), коли́-не́будь (kolý-nébudʹ)

at unspecified time in the past

• Arabic: فِي يَوْم مِن اَلْأَيَّام (fī yawm min al-ʔayyām)
• Bengali: একদিন (bn) (ekdin), একদা (bn) (ekoda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一天 (zh) (yī tiān)

• East Central German: aanstoochs
• Finnish: eräänä päivänä
• French: un jour (fr)
• German: eines Tages (de)
• Greek: κάποτε (el) (kápote)
• Hungarian: egy napon, egy szép napon, egyszer (hu)
• Italian: una volta
• Japanese: ある日 (aru hi)
• Korean: 어느 날 (eoneu nal), 하루는 (haruneun)
• Latin: olim (la)
• Malayalam: ഒരിക്കൽ (ml) (orikkal), ഒരു ദിവസം (oru divasaṁ)
• Maltese: jum fost l-oħrajn
• Maore Comorian: suku class 9
• Middle English: ones, enes
• Portuguese: uma vez
• Romanian: într-o zi
• Russian: одна́жды (ru) (odnáždy), когда́-то (ru) (kogdá-to), ка́к-то (ru) (kák-to)
• Scottish Gaelic: latha a bha seo, latha de na làithean
• Serbo-Croatian: jednoga dana
• Tagalog: isang araw
• Tamil: பின்னால் (ta) (piṉṉāl)
• Turkish: bir gün
• Welsh: undydd m

Anagrams

• Yeadon, day one, noyade