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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 UK is on course for its hottest summer on record, says the i Paper.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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 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

"Race against time" says the i Paper, next to a photo of a French firefighter standing in front of a burning row of trees and tall grass.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Olly: i’m a little harder to bully now than i was 2 years ago Olly: i’m meaner now. bigger too Madeline: You don’t seem mean.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

I knew right then we needed some land.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

“When I am down three games in the first set, what I think to myself is, ‘This match is going to go 30 games.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"Personally, I want more, and each player in the squad is like that. We've all worked to get here, to arrive in the best condition."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“That’s an inflated promise. But I will tell you, we will build, and I will tell you, there will be more Californians who own a home,” Becerra said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

I want to do something, experience more than silence and sore bones on a slow-moving wagon.

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

For the face I grant I might well blush to offer,-104--vol i- but the mind I shall never be ashamed to present.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Here she soon after met with her death;-292--vol i- and Verney and Foster, who appear to have been alone in the house with her, gave out that it happened by an accidental fall down stairs.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

With a just and pleasing confidence, the queen replied, 'I warrant you it is for-251--vol i- gladness,'" "How many nosegays did her grace receive at poor women's hands!

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

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

Hist. of Latin Christianity, vol. i. pp. 314-318.

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

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

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

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

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

Neither do I. I’m not afraid of him.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

Pg 62 Sometimes it is not. toumba, to fall. toumbarèu, -ello, likely to fall. canta, to sing. cantarèu, -ello, songful. crese, to believe. creserèu, -ello, inclined to belief. -i.

From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer

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

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

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

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

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

“Law, my phone was disconnected cause I’s short this month. You talk to Yule May?”

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Don’t miss: ‘I want to meet someone rich. Is that so wrong?’

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

"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

Is there any character you see rising to the task?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Think about what you just did. You comforted a soul in her darkest moment. You did that with no training, no guidance, nothing but the kindness of your own heart. Is that useless, Gingersnipes? Kindness?”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

"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

"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

They want to make sure they're dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's, to make sure these are the correct identifications.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2023

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

This is considerably higher than the more ambitious forecasts out there, like Bank of America’s $1.2 trillion, predicted by analyst Vivek Arya.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Moreover, Middle East tensions remain unresolved, which is keeping European natural gas prices elevated, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The key aspect, however, is that “the majority of the value will accrue to the frontier models as they orchestrate other models, as they make them more efficient.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The most common solution is to hyphenate their last names or keep their own last names.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Not only is she passionate, intelligent, and friendly, she is an unequivocal war hero.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

I knew right then we needed some land.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Following the latest fundraising, Lovable will be Menlo’s largest single investment after Anthropic—“a testament to how bullish we are on Lovable’s outlook,” said Matt Murphy, one of the firm’s partners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"As a coach, as a player, as a club, it's a trophy. It's one thing that makes us proud of how we are and how we arrive here."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“I’m here to say we can turn them around,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

I get in with my dad, and we go the long way like I suggested.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

This additional income enabled me to delay claiming my own Social Security benefits until 70.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

LISBON—The agent manning the passport control line warned me not to be fooled by the mercifully short line that greeted me upon arrival at Portugal’s Lisbon International Airport on the last Friday in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, different plane," Trump told reporters on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Rushing said that Sunday was the first time he’d felt pain while throwing — “didn’t feel a pop or anything, but felt pretty serious as it kind of tightened up on me a little bit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

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

However, the AI capex trends mean that in the short-term “chips lead us higher.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

That brings us to this old chestnut: Do you claim at 62, or later?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

"Trying to find people that will accept potatoes like that is very difficult. So that ultimately means a lot of wastage for us," Munns added.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Beloved Jackie showed us resilience and strength and the beauty of nature and how she stood for what we all want to believe,” said Patricia Hiscox of Long Island, N.Y.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

When I get down to the basement, Grandma has everything set up like last time: a large cloth for us to sit on, essential oils and candles throughout the room.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

So when I take mine at 70, she would get half of my $4,200, or $2,100, at 70.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 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

Humanity is still a long way from operating its first mine in space.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

The bank raises its share-price target to A$13.00 from A$12.00 to reflect increased expected mine life and output at some operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

And when he holds my gaze, the eyes that meet mine aren’t the ones full of mirth that I’m accustomed to seeing.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

My Social Security payments are higher than my husband’s benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The front-desk agents at my airport hotel, hearing too many horror stories from guests stuck in hourslong passport lines this summer, similarly suggested a god-awful-early alarm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

For Martin, collecting gives him a sense of meaning: "I've had a few tragedies in my life through family and whatever else, and I think, 'enjoy life while it's here'."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“I feel like the second half was every time I went to my move, they were right there and on time with the turnovers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

One day I’ll tell my children how Caesar and Midnight changed the journey.

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

“The U.S. is our next major target market after Japan,” Yamamoto said, citing Japanese automakers’ large presence there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said "protecting the public is our top priority", adding it had invested in probation and hiring trainee officers.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“The winning family will determine the name of our future children.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"Culture and leisure consistently rank as the second most important reason for visiting the district in our on-street surveys."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“Auntie, you know we’re not little kids anymore. We don’t require our foods to be animal-shaped,” I remind her.

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“They’re a partner of ours at the same time they’re competing with us, and I think that’s also great,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Were there cliffs like ours above the houses on Smith Street?

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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