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• i
  i

  the imaginary number .
• I
  I

  noun

  the ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
• i-
  i-

  variant of y-.
• i.
  i.

  abbreviation

  imperator.
• -i-
  -i-

  the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Latin words, as -o- is of Greek words, but often used in English with a first element of any origin, if the second element is of Latin origin.
• I.
  I.

  abbreviation

  Independent.
• -i
  -i

  suffix

  of or relating to a region or people, esp of the Middle East

i

¹ American  

Mathematics.

1. Also called imaginary unit.  the imaginary number .

2. a unit vector on the x -axis of a coordinate system.

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I ² American  

[ahy] / aɪ /

Or i

noun

• I's,
  plural
• Is,
  plural
• i's,
  plural
• is
  plural

1. the ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.

2. any spoken sound represented by the letter I or i, as in big, nice, or ski.

3. something having the shape of an I.

4. a written or printed representation of the letter I or i.

5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter I or i.

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I ³ American  

[ahy] / aɪ /

pronoun

• we,
  plural nominative
• me,
  objective
• us,
  objective
• my,
  possessive
• mine,
  possessive
• our,
  possessive
• ours
  possessive

1. the nominative singular pronoun, used in referring to oneself, the person speaking, writing, or otherwise communicating.

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noun

• I's
  plural

1. (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular.)

2. Metaphysics. the ego.

I ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. interstate (used with a number to designate an interstate highway).

   I-95.

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I ⁵ American  

Symbol.

1. the ninth in order or in a series.

2. (sometimes lowercase) the Roman numeral for 1.

3. Chemistry. iodine.

4. Biochemistry. isoleucine.

5. Electricity. current.

6. Logic. particular affirmative.

7. (italics) isotopic spin.

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i- ⁶ American  

1. variant of y-.

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i. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

1. imperator.

2. incisor.

3. interest.

4. intransitive.

5. island.

6. isle; isles.

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-i- ⁸ American  

1. the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Latin words, as -o- is of Greek words, but often used in English with a first element of any origin, if the second element is of Latin origin.

   cuneiform; Frenchify.

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I. ⁹ American  

abbreviation

1. Independent.

2. Island; Islands.

3. Isle; Isles.

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I ¹ British  

symbol

1. chem iodine

2. physics current

3. physics isospin

4. logic a particular affirmative categorial statement, such as some men are married, often symbolized as SiP Compare A E O 1

5. one See Roman numerals

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abbreviation

1. Italy (international car registration)

-i ² British  

suffix

1. of or relating to a region or people, esp of the Middle East

   Iraqi

   Bangladeshi

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-i- ³ British  

1. used between elements in a compound word Compare -o-

   cuneiform

   coniferous

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i ⁴ British  

/ aɪ /

noun

1. the ninth letter and third vowel of the modern English alphabet

2. any of several speech sounds represented by this letter, in English as in bite or hit

3. 1. something shaped like an I

   2. ( in combination )

      an I-beam

4. to pay meticulous attention to detail

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I. ⁵ British  

abbreviation

1. International

2. Island or Isle

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I ⁶ British  

/ aɪ /

pronoun

1. (subjective) refers to the speaker or writer

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i ⁷ British  

symbol

1. Also called: j.  the imaginary number √–1

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i Scientific  

/ ī /

1. The number whose square is equal to −1. Numbers expressed in terms of i are called imaginary or complex numbers.

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i Idioms  

1. see dot the i's and cross the t's.

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Grammar

See me.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• I's
  plural
• Is
  plural
• i's
  plural
• is
  plural
• mine
  possessive
• my
  possessive
• our
  possessive
• ours
  possessive

Etymology

Origin of I

First recorded before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i, Old English ic, ih; cognate with Gothic ik, German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, Old Church Slavonic azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám

Example Sentences

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i I i- i. -i- I. -i I's Is i's is we me us mine my our ours

The move comes less than a week after Seven & i decided against proceeding with a potential investment in ⁠Zabka.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The deal, if successful, would be the largest-ever acquisition for the owner of Circle K, which abandoned a $47 billion takeover attempt of Seven & i, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven, last July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The i Paper leads with official advice to "take a shorter shower to save water in drought" under a new Environmental Agency plea to "save every drop".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

YouTube surpassed Netflix in average daily viewing time in 2025, according to research firm Digital i, cited by TechCrunch.

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

Who’s is short for who is, and the apostrophe replaces the missing i in is.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

I was using an open-weight Chinese model with its guardrails removed, which I accessed through a free account on an American website.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

I bought large bags of loose peppermint and spearmint to use for tea at home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

"I don't know the issue yet in detail, but in some ways, as I understand it, it is about creating secure space," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

In 2020, I calculated that repealing the firewall would lead to $2.2 trillion in higher subsidy spending over a decade for the estimated 24 million people who would switch from employer coverage to the exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Standing tall like real men. That’s why I headed west.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Yet that doesn't make its turnaround solely the work of one heavily stubbled mastermind, who saved a company through his singular vision, taste and liberal use of the i- prefix.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2011

But it wasn't until Cipla came out with the i- pill in 2007, marketing it to modern young women through television and magazine advertising, that women took to it.

From Time ● May 26, 2010

Happy would it have been for England in more ages than one, had the sentiment of the following humble-124--vol i- stanza been indelibly inscribed on the hearts of children.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Numbered footnotes in Sections I-VII of the Introduction have been relocated to the end of the Introduction and marked with an "i-".

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson

Your majesty's humble sister to commandment, "Elizabeth." -107--vol i-

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

And a lot of people, not just the Gilbreths, were very worried that the “best women” i. e. highly educated women were not reproducing.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

Properties i. and ii. say that line integrals are linear, which is true of single-variable integrals as well.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

For each of the following functions, determine the i. domain and ii. range.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

Within minutes, I got my answer: “@sethporges yes. my girlfriend cathy and i. and i used to do puppet shows.”

From Forbes ● Jun. 26, 2012

Laws respecting it, 245 Superstition, possibility of adding to the happiness of man by the diffusion of, i. 50-53.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

It may be a connecting sound, like the -i- in nacht-i-gale.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

The concord of the 4th prefix, Mi-, is gi-, -i-, -ji-, and sometimes -mi-.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

Pearl diving has all but disappeared, particularly after the mass production of cultured pearls on farms after World War I. In Gulf countries, the extinction of this profession converges with a familiar story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

He also urged them not to allow partnerships between large corporations and the military, the way the German scientific community and government did with I. G. Farben and Krupp Armaments and Steel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Also in 2025, she was a finalist for the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for her reporting and hosting of an audio investigation into a deadly U.S. refinery explosion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Born in Oregon to Taiwanese immigrants, Wang is herself a beneficiary of the doctrine she defended during the historic oral argument—as am I. Following the argument, interest in her background exploded.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

“So am I. Why don’t you go out and see what you can find for us.”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Then, when you get to the step where you’re actually running the check-backup command, add -i ~/Downloads/pegasus.stix2 into the option section.

From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2021

Singular masculine words end in -us, plurals end in -i.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010

Its inflections are -as present, -is preterite, -os future, -us conditional, -u imperative and subjunctive, -i infinitive, together with the following participles:—   Active.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

Every Esperanto verb has three Moods—the Conditional, the Imperative, and the Infinitive, which are formed respectively by means of the endings -us, -u, and -i.

From Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation by William W. Mann

I E -i formed abstracts and nouns of agency; I E ar go; Min ari, way, track, trail.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

The medieval Cloth Hall and St. Martin’s Church were two of the most prominent monuments in Ypres, Belgium, and among World War I’s early casualties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The company taking the top spot on Gauntlet I’s leaderboard External link was Skycutter, a British startup that partnered with Ukrainian drone company SkyFall.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

"I's a very different offering up there. You've still got beaches, but then you've got greenery and mountains and wildlife."

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

Queen Elizabeth I’s elaborate mask-like daily makeup ritual not only hid her smallpox scars but was also meant to project a preternatural agelessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

“Mae Mobley, you know I’s just teasing you, about all them seventeen kids being mine? They ain’t really. I only had me one child.”

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

"Is he simply going to ramp up the name of Liverpool in order to make as much money as possible?"

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Life Is a Dream” is, essentially, a collection of love letters: to his wife Stella, to Margam, to the life he knows won’t last forever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The company will launch a $1 billion “Future Is For Everyone Fund” to directly support communities around the facilities—giving itself a new talking point to deploy against the rising tide of anti-data-center activism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Only three Ramones songs ever made it to the Billboard Hot 100 — “Rockaway Beach,” “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker,” and “Do You Wanna Dance,” all absolute bangers that should be enshrined in the culture.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

“And consider this possibility: Is believing you’re selfish one of your automatic negative thoughts?”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

“No matter what the federal government was doing, they knew that if they weren’t dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s, they were going to get called to account,” Hilton said.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

"I had really dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's of the experiment," he said.

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

And I don’t tend to favor biographies, because there generally are some tedious sections in the middle as the writer dots the i’s and crosses the t’s of the subject’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"Your proposal does not adequately acknowledge the multiple and significant challenges such a transaction would face from US competition law enforcement agencies," Seven & i's letter added.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024

CPAs, those folks who can add columns of 9s in their heads, have been advising MDs since the 1980s to dot their i’s, cross their t’s, and never accept IOUs.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Optical stocks have recaptured investors’ interest lately, but Lumentum’s blowout earnings report is being met with a ho-hum response.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Ms. Bridgers’s romantic partner is comedian and musician Bo Burnham, and the explosive “Bobby” is one of several songs that seem drawn from their relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

For Oracle, the “top priority” is maintaining an investment-grade credit rating, Deutsche Bank analyst Brad Zelnick wrote in a note last week.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

And should be: The movies and the mob are subjects about which every American is an expert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

It is believed that Villalobos is responsible for giving the Philippines its name in 1543, though it may have been a member of his crew.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“Customer demand is accelerating as enterprise adoption broadens and we continue to deepen our technology platform.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

These stories require that we remember the men themselves, their courage, their dignity and their extraordinary talent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“All of the traditions, including European, we involve in the blending of formulas,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

"I heard Spain was the best place to watch it but as we are on holiday, I checked if you can see it in Scotland and it is possible," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The farther we get from Mr. Thompson’s farm, the more the wide-open, remote land stirs him with wonder.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

What are they going to do with me?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Krylova then led me to the wall of herbs, offering two cooling blends that can be made into tea at home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Alcaraz had lived a hard, brutal road, Daniell told me.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Delivering his verdict, Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram referred to footage in which Wilby said: "I don't care about your feelings, your feelings don't matter to me".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“It’s a Colt Frontier. An ex-Union officer gave it to me and taught me how to use it.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

“He was telling us to get him out, and we provided support.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Presidents rightly expect more security than the rest of us, but that typically comes with greater scrutiny of their locations and activities too.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

"When we hopefully play in the way they want to see us - intense football, a vertical approach, aggressive, front-footed - there is a great synergy between the fans and the team."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“The Compassionate Allowances initiative cuts through red tape and allows us to deliver support to individuals who experience life-changing diagnoses and need help fast.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

My parents were only seventeen when they had us.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

To investigate, the team collected mine water from a flooded uranium mine in the Ore Mountains belonging to Wismut GmbH.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

"She just walked past, and she saw me there. Her jaw just dropped, so did mine," Zainab tells me.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Higher prices can bring some of that idle capacity back faster than anyone can build a mine, though not overnight.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press and co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast, says this has put pressure on memoirists to push the envelope and find ever-more-shocking traumas to mine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

His letters did not come as often as mine went singing to him, but I put this down to his work.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

On the bouncing folk-rock number “Liberty Tree,” which again mentions Bobby, she sings, “I was alone with my thoughts / In an outline of chalk,” illustrating how isolation can feel like death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Bonus: my car smelled sublime — minty and fresh — the entire way home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I can’t get the image out of my mind … him standing on the gate, screaming, ‘Help me!

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

When 10th Street Entertainment’s merchandising director Ian Dietrich came across fanmade clothing with the Papa Roach lyric “Cut my life into pieces,” he didn’t try to take the shop down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

One hand touching Belle’s foreleg, I kick downward again and again, fighting my urge to surface.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

“Social Security is strengthening our disability programs and making the disability determination process better, faster and higher-quality to serve the American public,” Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano said in a statement.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

In the book, locals blame Tyler for profiting off their stories in his songwriting, and they wonder, “Where’s our cut?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Reyna: In the studio, I had a lot of moments where I felt totally alone, but what comforted me was our creative process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Egerton said: "I do love him. I just don't think we work very well in terms of our relationship. So, there was a point where I pushed the ejector seat and haven't seen him since."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

We were both wearing short-sleeved shirts, and our elbows touched.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Salzburg’s worries are our worries; its triumphs can be ours as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

As much as we might wish otherwise, Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift are not like us, and we cannot measure their autonomy and power on the same scale as ours.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Whirlpool has been a great partner of ours for decades and decades,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Anthropic added that it is "approaching the fixes as if the responsibility were ours alone."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“But Liz is in ours and I have to get to the bus.”

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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