One (wŭn), indef. pron. Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
It was well worth one's while. Hawthorne.
Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can. G. Eliot.
One is often used with some, any, no, each, every, such, a, many a, another, the other, etc. It is sometimes joined with another, to denote a reciprocal relation.
When any one heareth the word. Matt. xiii. 19.
She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. Compton Reade.
The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another. Jowett (Thucyd.).
The gentry received one another. Thackeray.