number one

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The most important person, the one who is in charge.
  2. Someone who is top of a ranking, who is ranked first.
    — The phone rings, in the middle of the night / My father yells "what you gonna do with your life" / Oh, daddy, dear, you know you're still number one / But girls, they wanna have fun / Oh, girls just wanna have...
  3. Oneself, being considered foremost, as by an egoist.
    — No man should have more than two attachments—the first, to number one, and the second to the ladies; that's what I say—ha! ha!
  4. Urine; urination. childish,euphemistic
    — He might have got up, without the bell's sounding, to do his number one, or number two, in his great big white chamber-pot.
  5. The single that has sold the most in a given period.
  6. The main goalkeeper of a team, so-called because they wear the number 1 on the back of their kit.
    — England number one Hart produced a magnificent moment to deny Van Persie once more just after the hour mark, leaping across his goal to fingertip the Dutchman's crashing 25-yard, top corner-bound drive away.
  7. The batsman who opens the batting.
  8. A first lieutenant.
  9. A large town where theatrical performances may expect to achieve success.
  10. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see number, one.
形容词 adj.
  1. First; foremost; best, often used after its headword. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — Commuting to work is the number one reason to own a car.
  2. Black, African-American. US,not-comparable,slang

词形变化

number ones plural

词源

词源 1
Piecewise doublet of numero uno.
词源 2
Piecewise doublet of numero uno.
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