once
adverb
uk
/wʌns/ us
/wʌns/once adverb (ONE TIME)
for once
just this once
once again (also once more)
once more
once and for all
C2
Our intention is to destroy their offensive capability once and for all.
once in a lifetime
An opportunity as good as this arises once in a lifetime.
Ver también
the once
- I go to aerobics once a week.
- I did meet him once and it was an experience I shall never forget.
- The baby only feeds once a night at the moment, thank goodness.
- If I look flustered it's because I'm trying to do so many things at once.
- She's decided to write her memoirs to set the record straight once and for all.
- (every) now and then/again idiom
- blue moon
- day
- episodic
- ever and anon
- few
- fit
- isolated
- it's not every day (that)... idiom
- like ships that pass in the night idiom
- occasion
- occasional
- odd
- one and done idiom
- one-off
- one-shot
- one-time
- rarely
- stop-go
- ultra-rare
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once adverb (PAST)
B1
in the past, but not now:
Gramática
Expresión
once
conjunction
uk
/wʌns/ us
/wʌns/ at once
B1
I knew at once that I'd like it here.
- immediatelyPlease report to the office immediately.
- nowI need you to get me that report now.
- right nowYou put that back right now.
- right awayIf you're going to call the doctor, you'd better do it right away - the office is closing in two minutes.
- straight awayI called them back straight away.
- Decoding the paintings is not difficult once you know what the component parts symbolize.
- You'll feel better once you've got some hot soup down you.
- We can't afford to make any false moves once we're in enemy territory.
- Fourteen miles is further than you'd think once you start to run it.
- My new hiking boots will be great once I've broken them in.
- accompanied by someone/something
- accompaniment
- accompany
- all the while idiom
- along
- fly
- gavel-to-gavel
- go along
- heavy rotation
- in parallel idiom
- in rotation idiom
- minute
- process
- simultaneously
- simultaneousness
- soon
- step
- straight
- successive
- turn
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