I meaning
I is defined as the person who is speaking or telling the story.
An example of I is someone answering that they are here.
pronoun
I is the ninth letter in the English alphabet.
An example of i is the first letter in the word "index."
noun
The definition of i is the roman numeral for one.
An example of i is ii meaning two.
noun
Inside.
abbreviation
Island.
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Independent.
abbreviation
Interest.
abbreviation
Incomplete.
abbreviation
Intransitive.
abbreviation
Isle.
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I is defined as an incomplete grade for work in a class.
An example of I is the letter on a report card for a class that has not been finished.
noun
Interstate.
abbreviation
Isospin.
abbreviation
The ninth letter of the English alphabet: via Latin from the Greek iota, a modification of the Phoenician (Semitic yodh, a hand): this letter, first dotted in the 11th cent., was not distinguished from j until the 17th cent.
noun
Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the vowel (i) of pick, (ē) of pique, or (ī) of pike, or, when it is unstressed, (ə) as in sanity, or the semivowel (y) in boil.
noun
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A type or impression for i or I.
noun
The ninth in a sequence or group.
noun
A Roman numeral for 1
noun
The inclination of a planet's orbit to some reference plane, as the ecliptic.
noun
Interest.
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Intransitive.
abbreviation
Isle(s)
abbreviation
−1, the square root of negative one.
symbol
The Roman numeral for 1: placed after another Roman numeral, it adds one unit (e.g., VI = 6), and placed before a greater Roman numeral, it subtracts one unit (e.g., IV = 4)
noun
A grade indicating incompletion of assigned work; an incomplete.
noun
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The person speaking or writing: personal pronoun in the first person singular.
pronoun
The ego; the self.
noun
Imperator.
abbreviation
Island(s)
abbreviation
Isle(s)
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Moment of inertia.
abbreviation
Electric current.
symbol
Iodine.
symbol
Forming compound words.
affix
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The number whose square is equal to −1. Numbers expressed in terms of i are called imaginary or complex numbers.
The symbol for electric current.
(1) A prefix for technical terms that may connote Apple's iDevices (see definition #3 below), the Internet or information.
Nonstandard capitalization of I.
pronoun
Something shaped like the letter I.
noun
An object shaped like I or I.
noun
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Shaped like I or I.
adjective
Island(s)
abbreviation
Incisor.
abbreviation
Independent.
abbreviation
Interstate.
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(grammar) Abbreviation of instrumental case.
abbreviation
The ninth letter of the modern English alphabet.
noun
Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter i.
noun
The ninth in a series.
noun
Used to refer to oneself as speaker or writer.
pronoun
The self; the ego.
noun
Ninth in a sequence or group.
adjective
(colloquial, poetic) In.
contraction
Of i or I.
adjective
The symbol for the Roman numeral 1.
Used as a connective to join word elements.
Setiform.
Origin of i
- Middle English from Old French from Latin stem vowel of nouns and adjectives used in combination
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old English ic eg in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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”), Norwegian jeg, eg (“I”), Norwegian I (“I”) (dialectal), Swedish jag (“I”), Icelandic ég, eg (“I”), Latin ego (“I”), Ancient Greek ἐγώ (ego), Russian я (ja, “I”), Lithuanian aš (“I”). See also ich.
From Wiktionary
- From Latin -ī, the plural ending of the Latin second declension, whence the plural of Italian nouns in -o and -e.
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- Old French i, from Latin ī, from Etruscan I (i).
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- From Old English ic.
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