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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  

abbreviation

1. International

2. Island or Isle

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I ² 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- ³ British  

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

   cuneiform

   coniferous

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I ⁴ British  

/ aɪ /

pronoun

1. (subjective) refers to the speaker or writer

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i ⁵ British  

symbol

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

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-i ⁶ British  

suffix

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

   Iraqi

   Bangladeshi

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i ⁷ 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 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 i Paper says it was the "day that changed the world".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The deal would mark Couche-Tard’s largest-ever acquisition after it abandoned a $47 billion takeover attempt of Seven & i, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven, last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

David Zwirner presents Roy DeCarava’s “the sound i saw,” bringing together photographs taken in the late 1940s and 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

"Killer kitchen dust" is the i Paper's headline, writing that loved ones of the victims of silicosis will "receive higher compensation" as "new legislation goes to Parliament".

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

I thought the same about him but had i he smarts not to mention it.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

And I was like, ‘Wow, that’s a really big deal!’

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

“I went to my first Michigan football game in Ann Arbor, and for some mysterious reason, I fell in love with it,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I really like being deputy leader to Ed. We work together as a team. I think we complement each other."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“I had never really considered it because I have a low BMI,” Balkey says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

I towel her down, brush her gray coat.

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

She answered-163--vol i- that she had little to say to him or to the rest that were in the Tower.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Intelligence however had no-175--vol i- sooner reached the court of the reception afforded to the princess at Ricot, than directions arrived for her immediate removal to Woodstock.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The old ‘Minor Declensions’ had begun to pass over into the vocalic, especially into the i- and a-, declensions in the oldest OHG.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright

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

Combining the results from parts i. and ii., draw a rough sketch of f .

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

Dion Cassius and Tacitus relate the exiles of Helvidius, who appears to have been rather intemperate and unreasonable.639.Friedländer gives many and most touching examples, tome i. pp. 410-414.640.Suet.

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

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

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 violin in Baerwald’s hands was the one his German-Jewish grandfather played as a Japanese prisoner of war in the Bandō camp at Tokushima during World War I. “It’s a very serviceable violin,” Baerwald notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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

Nearly five million Americans served in uniform during World War I. After the war, the U.S. drew down the Army to a minimal level and kept it there for two decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Jef I. Richards is a professor emeritus of advertising and public relations at Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

“It cannot be too early to commence the task I have to fulfil,” thought I. I rose: I was dressed; for I had taken off nothing but my shoes.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

The suffix -i, added to a noun stem, forms generally a neuter verb.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson

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

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

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

They include everything from sketches of Apple logos to the bench and desk of the Apple I’s presentation at the Homebrew Computer Club a half-century ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Another important part of Victor I's legacy was to introduce Latin as the common language of the Catholic Church.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025

“Yeah, it takes us a little longer, but we dot our I’s and we cross our Ts,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

All I'm thinking is how I's the one that set him to dusting.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Watch: Is Canada about to join the EU?

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Appeared in the September 17, 2026, print edition as 'Kevin Warsh Is an Inflation Hawk'.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Is it a good time to take out a HELOC?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Is it control of self-replicating armies of autonomous drones, or a cancer-free utopia that hits Type II on the Kardashev scale?

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

Is this your awkward way of asking to run with me?

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

"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

So homeowners, dot the i’s and cross the t’s when you sell—and be ready to show your work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

“I know sometimes people feel like, why hasn’t there been more information? But again, just trying to make sure we have i’s dotted and t’s crossed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

"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

I’ve won the writing prize twice, and I would have this week, too, but I decided to leave some i’s undotted.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

“It was quite an image that is very vivid to me right now.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

This is some way off the UK's September temperature record, though, which stands at 35.6C, set in 1906 at Bawtry in South Yorkshire.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Tran is no longer a driver with Uber, according to the statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

This week, AI insiders voiced concerns about how quickly the technology is developing, Lord Byron returned to London's Hyde Park, and a magazine borrowed from a US library was returned 132 years late.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

At the height of racial segregation, Carville is remarkably diverse.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

"I really like being deputy leader to Ed. We work together as a team. I think we complement each other."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“And we found a number of serious issues and we fixed them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Do we hold bars responsible for the things drunk people do on public sidewalks?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

“We want people to stay in these positions because when the fires hit, we can’t be asking where is the fire force,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The case of Phineas Gage suggests that we are human because our frontal lobes are set up so we can get along with other humans.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

“It was quite an image that is very vivid to me right now.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Returning from compassionate leave, he said his father would have wanted him "back out there" to bring forward "the changes that he always pushed me to make".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“It gives me goosebumps that people can still find something in common and work together,” McCarthy said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“The U.S. is absolutely vulnerable to a Pearl Harbor in space,” this person told me.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

I only thought about Father and me traveling.

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

“We thank the researchers for contacting us and sharing their findings. We narrowed the permissions on Community sign-in tokens and revoked affected tokens and sessions,” the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"Families with incomes coming into the household are still not able pay for food and things like that, so we're seeing a lot families coming to us and asking for help."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“The school won’t allow us to practice until Wednesday and we’ll still be day-to-day after that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

He adds: "The case has to be made honestly by political leaders who must really look the population in the eye and say 'this has got to be done for us to be secure'."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

We pull up to Wes’s place and he waves at us from the porch.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

It has a buy rating and A$1.50 target on Larvotto, which owns a gold and antimony mine in Australia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“La Opinión helped families like mine stay informed about what was happening in our communities and gave Spanish-speaking Angelenos a voice,” she said in a written statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Macklemore coming off tour was the promoter's decision, it was not mine," Sheeran wrote in a lengthy Instagram post, adding that the rapper's contract was ended by the promoter, Messina Touring Group.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Revolutionary Guards said the vessel, Sidr, caught fire after hitting a naval mine.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

In the dark I felt Betsie’s hands clasp mine.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“I went to my first Michigan football game in Ann Arbor, and for some mysterious reason, I fell in love with it,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“We were driving home,” Smith said, “and I asked my wife. I’m like, ‘What is that family eating?’

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Over the last couple of months my whole TikTok and Instagram is just people learning to drive. It's like my algorithm knows, it's quite scary," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“The fact that my daughter was involved and was the cause of it is just extremely disturbing,” she told the outlet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

“I’ve had my doubts. You toiling for Thompson. Me growing up to do the same.”

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

“Over the past few days, I have listened closely to the conversations, concerns, and heartfelt feedback shared across our community following my presentation honoring Chris Brown with a state resolution,” Jones said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Government wants us all to start preparing for severe disruption to our lives.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

It also turns the leaders of the AI companies into Lewis and Clark in coonskin caps with parchment maps, bravely surveying our country that it might understand its true size.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“No family should have to suffer the loss of a child, and our thoughts continue to be with the Normandin-Parker family,” an Uber spokesperson said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

I like the rhythm of our days, the journeying.

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

"MSF's work in Sudan is privately funded. But when funding disappears from other health services, clinics close, patients have fewer places to go, and pressure shifts to the facilities that remain, including ours."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

At Camp Golden Eagle, in Woodruff, Wis., all the usual activities were ours: baseball, archery, canoeing, swimming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Dolly was one of us, ours, but of course she was also much more.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

It’s offensive because cases like ours could have been settled for significantly less than what the verdict is.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

We were part of the United States branch, but there were Academy branches just like ours hidden all over the world.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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