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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  

/ aɪ /

pronoun

1. (subjective) refers to the speaker or writer

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i ³ 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. ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. International

2. Island or Isle

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-i- ⁵ British  

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

   cuneiform

   coniferous

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i ⁶ British  

symbol

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

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-i ⁷ British  

suffix

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

   Iraqi

   Bangladeshi

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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

The i Paper's top story also covers the landmark vaccine trial, which found patients with high-risk melanoma remained free of cancer for longer after surgery.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

He wondered about this i good deal as the first slow half-hour ticked on.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

Dydzuhn continued that Cassius guided her to safety and spoke calmly, telling her, “There’s a man here with a weapon. I need to get you out of here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"I think we're at the end of copper," says Chris Sharp, the chief technology officer at data centre operator Digital Reality.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“She’s poured into me since I got into the league,” Dream forward Angel Reese said in August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"I want to go into the electro-mechanical side, making robots. And semiconductors play a massive role in making that possible."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

By their strained faces, I can tell there’s a memory neither will share.

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

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

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

A remarkable incident soon served to intimate the coolness and caution with which it was her intention-254--vol i- to proceed in re-establishing the maxims of the reformers.

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

The courts, however, generally held that extraterritorial notice of copyright, i. e. on foreign editions, was impracticable and unnecessary; and this view is specifically adopted in the new code.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

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

He told me he is not seeing other people, and neither am I. Every year he goes to Mexico for six months.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 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

But for the 11 months we were married, I experienced the glory of being a we instead of an I. Suddenly I was part of a giant club, the Partnered People.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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

“Nor did I. But then I was asked to recommend two girls. Do you not think you are ready for it?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

If not a few Bantu languages, the verb used in a negative sense changes its terminal -a to -i.

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

First log on as root, and then type dpkg -i icewm_0.8.12-1.deb, and icewm version 0.8.12 will be installed.

From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen

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

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

“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

Child I's mother suggested senior managers should face sanctions if they ignore whistleblowers' concerns.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024

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

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Ella Langley's country smash Choosin' Texas has overtaken Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You to become the longest-running number one single in US chart history.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Is our skin care routine actually making it worse?

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

It’s been 22 weeks since Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” first appeared on top of the Billboard 100, tying Mariah Carey’s seasonally ubiquitous “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

MarketWatch: Is AI going to make it easier or harder for the next generation of entrepreneurs to build wealth?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

“What are you doing here? Is everything okay?”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

“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

At Swarthmore, Libbi got all A’s and B’s and started to spell her name with two i’s.

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

Last September, a suspect stripped a bronze marker from a beachside memorial for lifeguard pioneer Vincent G. Moorhouse, who is credited with modernizing the local lifeguard service, in Huntington Beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The national average price of copper at recycling centers is from $3 to $4.50 per pound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

A “field investigation of the message and access history is ongoing,” Park said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I’m not going to sugarcoat it. This is ultimately not what I wanted,” Tong told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The highly contagious illness is caused by bacteria growing in the body, usually the lungs, and is spread through the air when people cough, sneeze, or spit.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

I still wonder why our paths didn’t cross, even though we were on the same network at the same time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"I think we had a chance to say the words we wanted to say in our impact statement, but now I've been told they've redacted my last paragraph, which felt like our only chance."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“While we appreciate Kalshi’s instinct to deflect attention, there is no evidence of wash trading on our platform,” said Crypto.com spokesman Al D’Agostino.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

There’s a lack of programs — we need more therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors who are versed in helping people who are deaf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

I’m taken off guard, because we almost never even say the word Flash, let alone talk about it.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

“I’m mad at me because I bought the dream they sold me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"You have destroyed my whole world. If Immy was here now, I know exactly what she would say to me, but I'm not Immy and I will never forgive you."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

He sent me the script pages for that scene, only that scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Fortunately, it only took me one email to get a reply from Sexton explaining why it was proved irrelevant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Sometimes Caesar, after roping Midnight’s saddle with water jugs and cooking supplies, will walk with me.

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

"The wires between these GPUs, CPUs, and all this compute are what's slowing us down," says Sharp.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Before we talk about the complexity of it, I would love for you to just tell us the history of the case and what the issue is.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

In contrast, in the other weeks of the quarter, company news affords us much less insight about the health of the overall economy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

“There are some who wish to make us believe that only two powers, the U.S. and China, will be taking the decisions,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Doesn’t seem fair that they have to pull, carry us.

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

Like the others who had been detained, the young man, in his 20s, is an artisanal miner, eking out a living searching for precious metals at mine sites.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The gold miner said a challenging operating environment continues to impact underground mining, open-pit mining and sulfide processing at its Syama mine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

They allowed me to have my guitar — I remember a friend of mine dropped off a guitar for me, and it sat in the corner for most of the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Coal ash, red mud, and mine tailings are usually treated as major waste problems.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The setup of Helen’s switchboard is identical to mine; I am not more than eighteen inches away from where I usually sit.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

“It’s surreal to be able to be this proud of my child,” Gina told reporters at the event.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"You have destroyed my whole world. If Immy was here now, I know exactly what she would say to me, but I'm not Immy and I will never forgive you."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

She is a one-woman operation: “It’s my brand, it’s my reputation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

I was so mesmerized by her story and couldn’t take my eyes off of her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Be mad at me, George. This is my fault. My injury distracted you.”

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

“We are supporting our first responders as they take the appropriate steps to help ensure the health and safety of residents, employees and others in the affected area.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

She added: "Everyone present was transported 50 years back to the hour and place of our father's death."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“While we appreciate Kalshi’s instinct to deflect attention, there is no evidence of wash trading on our platform,” said Crypto.com spokesman Al D’Agostino.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

We’re dealing with heat stress and heat stroke and all the things that the people in our town are being affected by.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

I rummage beneath the seat, pull out the map, and unfold it across our laps.

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

He said the premium still felt like a "death tax" and the family were being "penalised through no fault of ours".

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

The messages prompted a quick response from the state’s governor, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, who said that “New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate—it’s been ours since before the United States existed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

How could she bring him into the secrets and adventures that were supposed to be ours?

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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