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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal The very beginning; the first day: worked hard on the project from day one.
Wiktionary
- n. The very beginning
Examples
“Francesco and I made a pact that one day one of us would put a bullet through the brain of Colonel Rivolta.”
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
“One day one of them ordered a local stonecutter to put a plain stone over the grave.”
“My buddy since day one on the bus at Benning was the fifty-four-year-old clean-shaven, disciplined conformist from a rural and conservative part of Oklahoma.”
“Madame was spending several days at Malmaison, when one day one of her ladies, whom she had caused to be sent for, found, on entering the room, to her great astonishment,”
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon
“The Largo con maesta is the outstanding movement of the sonata, remaining to this day one of MacDowell's most impressive creations.”
Edward MacDowell
“One day one of them would give him away; it was something of a tribute to human inability to believe the previously unthought-of that it hadn't already.”
“There is no reason not to imagine that some day one of us will reach out, the other will be receptive, and we will reaccess that intricate, secret world that we shared.”
Simon & Schuster: Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
“I shall h have to study very hard but neverthe less I have adopted the plan of not eating much and taking regular exercise we recite three lessons every day one in the morning and another at eleven Oclock and a third in the evening, I have but little time to spare.”
Letter from Charles L. Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, August 6, 1832
“So I remember vividly that, and just absolutely being charmed and the strong sense of personalism that's a part of this community, which from that day one is what we've experienced.”
“Lieutenant Ralph Clark, head of Government Stores, began to record the figures as best he knew them: the catch crept up from 147 birds a day shortly into April to 1,890 a day one month later.”
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