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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 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

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 i Paper leads with official advice to "take a shorter shower to save water in drought" under a new Environmental Agency plea to "save every drop".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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

C is pronounced like k before a, o, u; and like s before e, i, y, and the diphthongs æ and œ: as cado, pronounced ka'do; cedo, pronounced se'do.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

I was able to claim several months of retroactive benefits, so it still worked out quite well for me.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

“I was like there’s no way, but then I thought ‘Hang on, hang on, hang on,’” Christiane said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"For now, I believe that club football still has a lot to offer me."

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

It feels as though Ma and I have a pact.

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

The queen immediately-18--vol i- retired, and the next day was committed to custody.

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

Yea a ruffian will have more in his ruff and his hose than he should-283--vol i- spend in a year.

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

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

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

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

Guy Fieri didn’t know about it, and neither did I. Oh no, he did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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

“Estella of where?” said I. “You are bound to say of where.”

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

I, except that some of them have imperatives in -i: vaki, þęfi; uni. lifa, sęgja have imper. lif, sęg.

From Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary by Henry Sweet

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

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

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

Tug said, “If I’s planned it jus’ right, the Tennessee toothpick’ll hit Tug right in that fat butt of hisn!”

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Appeared in the August 12, 2026, print edition as 'Unregulated Open-Weight AI Is an Invitation to Disaster'.

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

Only three Ramones songs ever made it to the Billboard Hot 100 — “Rockaway Beach,” “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker,” and “Do You Wanna Dance,” all absolute bangers that should be enshrined in the culture.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Is it the creepy guy at number fifty-four who we always thought turned hedgehogs into wigs?

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

“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

A Japanese company of Seven & i's size has never been bought by a firm from overseas.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to the angles of the N, the dotting of the two i’s.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Taiyo Yuden is highly valued by investors, even if it’s not a household name — according to FactSet, the company trades on a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.8.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

For couples in same-sex marriages, there is no default expectation or tradition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Of the five bedrooms in the home, one is set up “as separate but attached caretakers’ quarters with its own kitchen and entrance,” the listing noted.

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

Somewhere in a village nestled in the lush land of Lucban—a town in the Philippine Islands—a little girl is playing make-believe.

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

He also said that, following the return of rail operators to public ownership, he wanted to "remodel the rail fares so that we can get more public benefit for people".

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“And so it puts my arm in just a fine spot, and obviously, we just worry about the muscle.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

No one wants to admit we might be too late.

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

I was able to claim several months of retroactive benefits, so it still worked out quite well for me.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

“The company is doing extraordinarily well,” Singh Cassidy, a former Google and StubHub executive who remains based in Silicon Valley, told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"They call me mad Martin and I don't know why," he laughed.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

“More ways than anyone can count. When I couldn’t walk anymore, he carried me. He taught me that a man can strike out on his own.”

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

"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

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

“So for us to be able to be down here, open it up for them, I don’t know how many there were here, but there were two flag football teams here as well.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

A few students walking down the hall holding oboes turn and look at us.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

In 2026 there have been multiple hits to production worldwide and to accommodate for this, Price adjusts his global mine supply forecast by 3.5% every year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

To investigate, the team collected mine water from a flooded uranium mine in the Ore Mountains belonging to Wismut GmbH.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

"This son of mine has no father, no birth certificate and no national number," Amira, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Scott welcomed home his daughter nine months after mine was born, so we were new stay-at-home parents together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Although some Dutch women in 1937 were wearing their skirts knee-length, mine was still a cautious three inches above my shoes.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

‘It feels like a medical miracle’: How did a single QR code coupon cut my $618 Walgreens prescription to $15?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

In Dutch, it translates to “from the bottom of my heart.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

He added: "It would be a great honour to represent my country as national coach one day. However, this was not the right moment for me."

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

I lean forward, laying my head on Midnight’s mane.

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

“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

“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

On either side of the fire, we cocoon beneath our blankets.

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

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

Another framed the problem in even starker terms: What impact would Anthropic’s revenue surpassing ours have on our IPO plans?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

I felt in me an embarrassing sense of pride that she was ours.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

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