Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- pro. Used to refer to oneself as speaker or writer.
- n. The self; the ego.
- The symbol for the element iodine.
- Electricity The symbol for current.
- The symbol for the Roman numeral 1.
- abbr. incomplete.
- abbr. interstate.
- abbr. isospin.
Wiktionary
- n. The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.
- n. The ordinal number ninth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.
- pro. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
- n. metaphysics The ego.
- n. The ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- n. chemistry Symbol for iodine.
- n. physics Isotopic spin.
- n. Italy
- n. physics, electronics Electrical current.
- n. biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for isoleucine
- n. cardinal number one.
- abbr. US, roadway interstate
Etymologies
- From Middle English I, ik (also ich), from Old English ih, ic ("I"), from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”). Cognate with Scots I, ik, A ("I"), West Frisian ik ("I"), Dutch ik ("I"), Low German ik ("I"), German ich ("I"), Bavarian I ("I"), Danish jeg ("I"), Swedish jag ("I"), Icelandic ég, eg ("I"), Latin ego ("I"), Ancient Greek ἐγώ (ego), Russian я (ja, "I"), Lithuanian aš ("I"). See also ich. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English ic; see eg in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It isn't -- I didn't -- you can't prove anything about me, Bert Bobbsey, and if you go around telling that I took your ice cream, I-- I---”
“I-- _I_ of course knew nothing about it; I only knew about the garden-party at Lady Margaret.”
“I-- _I_ got in under their nose while the big Mohammed was turned away without sight of his uncle, "bragged the little Imp." I am a clever boy, I.”
“In all my living, he argues, whether I sin or turn to God, whether I doubt or believe, whether I know or am ignorant, in all _I know that I am I_.”
“I-- _I_," she cried at length, her black eyes holding me as I stood, weak and faint, clinging unconsciously to the coffin for support.”
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
“Wasn't it necessary we should know it? Oh! "with a shudder of disgust," I wish I could make you understand how ashamed I feel -- how WICKED and ashamed I feel that I-- _I_ should have disgraced father's memory by ...”
“I felt as if it was the utter injustice of God that I-- _I_ -- had to be mixed up in it.”
“Till the stone is lifted, and the Brahmins come down singing the songs that I know, and feed me with warm milk, and take me to the light again, I-- I-- _I_, and no other, am the Warden of the King's Treasure!”
“I-- I---- but there, seeing you have robbed me of what I thought was my legitimate fortune, don't try to rob me of my good name.”
“I know it, but I-- I----" And then the young man, having tried to get to his feet, suddenly collapsed and became unconscious again.”
The Rover Boys in Business Or, The search for the missing bonds
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘I’.
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 more...
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All Things Scrabble
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Philosophical Shit
Thought-provokers; words that ask more questions than they answer.
meta, semantic, signify, sign, autological, heterological, ontology, hylozoism, abiogenesis, anima, homoiconicity, anthropomorphism and 11 more...
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Boy or Girl Letters?
I recently had a discussion with my family on the sex of language. So I was just wondering about y'all's opinions on the gender/sex of American English letters.
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robots (famous)
Famous or Infamous Robots (fiction or nonfiction)
NOTE: Karel Čapek coined the term 'robot' which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921. Karel credited...Gir, C-3PO, R2-D2, ASIMO, Futura, Rovio, AIBO, Optimus Prime, Jaianto Robo, KITT, David, PackBot and 70 more...
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Vowels only. And I mean: ONLY
Words containing no consonants and found in at least one major dictionary.
Foreign words permitted.aa, eau, oui, aiee, I, oo, euouae, eye, you, ye, yo, yay and 17 more...
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core words
my, I, mine, your, his, hers, him, her, their, theirs, our, ours and 34 more...
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Words Made Of Roman Numerals
dividivi, cimicic, civic, civil, idic, dill, livid, mild, ilicic, vivid, clim, imidic and 43 more...
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Single Letters with Meaning
Can you think of
1. More letters?
2. More meanings?
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Grade 1 Newcomer List
Basic Sight Word Vocabulary for L1 Newcomers in First Grade
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My Everending Words :) <3
These are ALL the words that I,do love hate charish forgotten remember and memories throught the rest of my life. Yes I know, I know you think I'm getting wayyyy to serious but...Who cares? I'm onl...
love, hate, inspiration, friends, rainbow, happily ever after, always there for me, Forever, God bless you, your the best, wedding, dream and 26 more...
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beautiful words.
the, known, universe, connection, touch, possibility, cataclysm, revolution, circumvolution, evolution, logic, winter and 71 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for I.
Jubjub Boy Jan 2, 2010
vanishedone Whatever algorithm selects the examples seems to favour repetition: I'm seeing lots of 'I--I' and even a little 'I--I--I'. Nov 17, 2009