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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 Chancellor John Healey will announce a new ISA which will help older first-time buyers in Britain.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

On November i, 1872, Susan B. Anthony opened a copy of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

She added: "I knew this would probably be my last chance, because there were other girls in Britain trying to do it."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

He added: "I know they've done it with a florist before, and I think they've done it with an ice cream parlour before."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I just think I'm so fortunate that I was in a sport where everybody accepted that you have men and women's races in the Olympics."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I was devastated," recalled Rachelle, who is not considering returning to Haiti due to the unstable security situation there.

From Barron's

If I am stopped, she thinks, maybe they’ll just search the blanket and never notice anything else.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Letters and proclamations were at the same time dispersed by Ashton, in-212--vol i- which the name of Elizabeth was employed without scruple.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Of the higher gentry, however, there were considerable numbers who-157--vol i- either went and established themselves in the protestant cities of Germany, or passed away the time in travelling.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

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

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

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

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

Grote, Hist. of Greece, pt. i. ch. xviii.;

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 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 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

I’ve been a huge Robyn fan for most of my life — she’s kind of a north star for my sisters and I. It’s no secret that we love sad dance songs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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

Morris’s mother and father, respectively, were an accomplished organist and a mechanic who had been gassed in World War I. Like Waugh, Morris boarded as a teenager at Lancing College in West Sussex, England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

‘I know, it doesn’t seem possible. But Saeunn’s sure of it. So am I. The listener must find the Mountain of the World Spirit -and then, with the Spirit’s help, he must destroy the bear.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Flocculus -i: a hairy or bristly appendage on the posterior coxa of some Hymenoptera.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

In most words of this class the final -i of the stem is lost in the Nominative Singular; in others it appears as -e.

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

Judges were unmoved that Luitpold’s forebears had brewed in the region since 1260, written the purity law and invented Oktoberfest for his great-great-grandfather King Ludwig I’s 1810 wedding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

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

The WNBA’s No. 1 overall draft pick and Division I’s career scoring leader revved up a raucous Indiana Pacers crowd by pumping the accelerator of a replica IndyCar before Game 3 against the Milwaukee Bucks.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

“Now don’t you mess with me this morning,” Elisha said, “because you ain’t got so holy I can’t turn you over my knee. I’s your big brother in the Lord—you just remember that.”

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

"Is he going to do anything about it? No," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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 what it means to be grown?

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

“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

Sometimes, he says, “dotting i’s and crossing t’s has to come second to right and wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

“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

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

Mythic Reinvention: An exhibition celebrating 50 Years of Costume and Craft is open until 15 November.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Mythic Reinvention exhibition, which is free, includes just a small fraction of the theatre's collection.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The rare habitat is home to deep-rooting wild flowers and grasses like great burnet and devil's-bit scabious.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"There is no support for an Orange Order march through this community on a return parade," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

But if she’s going to succeed in her adopted country—one for which she played such a pivotal wartime role—she’ll have to remind them who she is.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

She said: "I really do believe we can break it, but a lot of things have got to come together."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“With short positioning stretched and Fed pricing aggressive, we expect the 10Y Treasury yield to consolidate in a 4.90-5.10% range for now.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"He said 'score goals', but he wants me to defend. The way we defend - we defend to score goals so defending, in the end, is an attacking weapon."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I cannot say for certain how likely it is, but it is also clear that we must make every possible effort to turn that possibility into reality," he said.

From Barron's

Unfortunately, we don't know if the details are true.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

"He said 'score goals', but he wants me to defend. The way we defend - we defend to score goals so defending, in the end, is an attacking weapon."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

Slightly turning his head, he winks at me.

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

Sunday will tell us much about the way of things between the Glasgow giants.

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

"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

Rattling, jostling wagons, ahead of us and beside us, threaten to crash and trample.

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

A major new copper mine takes 15 to 20 years to get up and running.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

On April 19, it struck a British mine and sank.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

He widens his stance, brings his face closer to mine, tucks a loose strand of hair behind my ear.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

“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

Marr said: "The auction has been a great experience and has exceeded all my expectations. I'd like to thank everyone who made bids and special thanks to Christie's for making it so memorable."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I don't think that I would have been able to do it without the financial support from my parents," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“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

When I have my own property, I’m going to welcome everyone.

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

"It will be a chance to celebrate every individual who has helped create and shape this beloved theatre as we look to our future."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Mark Bernstein, then-board chair, said at the time it would be tantamount to “selling our soul to private capital.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"That shows you that our strategy is definitely working."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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

“That’s right, son. Hundreds of people were in our last camp. But not everyone drowned. And not every wagon failed. Most animals made it.”

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

"I don't think it's dawned on us it's really ours," says Conroy, a video editor.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Whenever he seems confused, I’m delighted; it’s reassuring to see someone so smart still struggle to fathom this thing of ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“It looked like this newsroom has money and ours doesn’t,” Koman adds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Oh, your dog is a purebred? Well, ours is a star!”

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

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