onesomeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From one +‎ -some.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwʌnsəm/
• 韻: -ʌnsəm
• ハイフネーション: one‧some

名詞

onesome (plural onesomes)

1. (rare) A solitary person or thing; a "group" of one.

   When Joe and Suzie left, the threesome became a onesome.

   • 2011, John Updike, Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf, page 50:

     The remote innocence of the time may be read not only in the sub—dollar greens fee but in the surreal presence of three solo golfers— “onesomes”—spaced out on a public course.

使用する際の注意点

This word is normally only used in comparison with a more common term like twosome.

アナグラム

• neosome, someone