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Synonyms for once
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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. once, one time, in one caseadverb

    on one occasion

    "once I ran into her"

    Synonyms:
    in one case, erstwhile, erst, at one time, formerly, one time

  2. onceadverb

    as soon as

    "once we are home, we can rest"

    Synonyms:
    in one case, erstwhile, erst, at one time, formerly, one time

  3. once, formerly, at one time, erstwhile, erstadverb

    at a previous time

    "at one time he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing"; "she was a dancer once";

    Synonyms:
    at once, erst, at one time, formerly, erstwhile, at a time, one time, in one case

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 2 votes

  1. onceadjective

    Synonyms:
    for one time

  2. onceadjective

    Synonyms:
    formerly, in former times

PPDB, the paraphrase database4.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "once":

    after, again, when, upon, formerly, if, ever, where, someday

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How to use once in a sentence?

  1. Max Wilmes:

    Thunberg was only briefly detained. Once (Thunberg’s) identity was established, she was free to go, due to the recognition of her name, police sped up the identification process.

  2. Guy Reffitt:

    He's been a lot more, I don't want to say aggressive, but a lot more scared, he would never say the stuff he did to me a couple of years ago... not once would he even think about something like that.

  3. Bert Bras:

    There are a lot of things we actually don't know yet about what can be done, once you have the base technology figured out, then you can start thinking about use cases. That's when you have entrepreneurs come in and say. 'You know what? We could do this.'.

  4. Hans Kluge:

    Europe is at the epicenter of this pandemic once again, at the risk of sounding alarmist, I must express our very real concern and convey our steadfast commitment to stand beside you and support you as best we can.

  5. Chris Holtmann:

    Listen, I think they certainly missed some shots that they'll make, and they'll certainly make at their place and they'll make once they get their legs back, there's not a better late-season coach in the country than Tom (Izzo).


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