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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 latest allegations will "escalate the row" with the Palace, the i Paper says.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner says every homeless person across England will be offered a bed by Christmas, the i Paper reports.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

I have yet another message from an anon, asking if I take commissions, i like your art so much, im so in love with it, it says.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

"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 wish the Eastern Bloc system hadn't been there, but that's what it was.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"And I think that the police's urgency to get him arrested and the urgency to get it in the press, I think he couldn't understand why there wasn't an urgency to help clear his name."

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

Twisting on the wagon perch, I peek at him again.

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

Cranmer-128--vol i- resisted for some time, but was at length won to compliance by the tears and entreaties of Edward.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

In furtherance of the design, several of her gentlemen had already taken their departure for that city, and Flemish light vessels were observed to keep watch on the English-112--vol i- coast.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The-207--vol i- success of this collection was prodigious; edition after edition was given to the public under the inspection of different poetical revisers, by each of whom copious additions were made to the original work.

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

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

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

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

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

The whole subject of the vision of St. Gregory is discussed by Champagny, Les Antonins, tome i. pp. 372-373.

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

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

In that way, I feel creatively redeemed on some level, just in my own journey between me, myself and I. But I feel ready to move on from the ‘Blade’ questions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Even a retreat that flops can draw employees closer while they commiserate over its lameness, adds Michael I. Norton, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied group rituals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

“Oh!” said I. “Yes. Shall we follow you?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

Nouns ending in -a, -e, -i, -y, -o, -l, -n, -t, -ar, -ur, -ŭs are Neuter.

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

Oncus -i: a welt: applied to welt-like ridges on caterpillars.

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

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

Caleb said he was told the Llantrisant Mace was older than most of the Crown Jewels and survived Oliver Cromwell trying to melt down any remaining precious metal bearing Charles I's crest.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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 don’t carry beef with people. And I’m not going to get into the history of Doc and I’s relationship right now. And I probably won’t ever. He’s fine in my book.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024

She laughed and said, “That’s good. I’s kind of surprised your folks let you go to that meeting in the first place.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Is this 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 a September heatwave forecast for the UK?

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

“The Wool Witches? Is there such a thing?”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

“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

It’s just making sure our i’s are dotted and our t’s are crossed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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

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

The auction comes ahead of the release of Marr's first studio album in four years, The Age Of Everything, which is due out on 2 October.

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 painting is one of more than 100 works to go on display as part of Turner, Wedgwood & Beyond: Inspired by Flaxman, which opens at the gallery on Friday.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

He argued that it fed the dream that it could lead to greater riches for a population that is often battling to make ends meet.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

There is no evidence of her past life as a spy, wife, mother, or leprosy patient.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

"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

“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

And the term "Yangote" – a pun in the Hausa language essentially meaning "we all have a share now" - has been trending on social media.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

Cleaned my room and read five chapters of the book we were assigned in English.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"At my age you don't know how many years you have left, and this has given me three years-plus of stress but now we have proven they blocked our rights."

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Darkness still blankets me, but the glow on the horizon signals daybreak.

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

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

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

It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Dad reminds us of the chores we have yet to do.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Oblivious to her own biases about who Leo is and why, Mallory poses as a therapist keen on saving his life, but uses their faux sessions to mine his story for literary gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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

“Increased mining rates at Break of Day following the Stage 2 cutback, along with mine life extensions at Penny, should drive higher head grades through FY27 and FY28,” says the broker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Thank you,” I said, still holding his hands in mine.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

“I am intentional about making sure I’m eating enough and getting my protein.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

"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

“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

He shoves my foot upward; swinging my right leg, I grip the saddle’s horn.

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

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

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

"At my age you don't know how many years you have left, and this has given me three years-plus of stress but now we have proven they blocked our rights."

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

Turning in all directions, I can’t see the boundaries of our land.

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

I meander out of the cathedral, and now my feet take me to what was once a Jewish street, not that far from ours.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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