number one

Questions about number one

What does number one mean?

number one means "a reference to yourself or myself etc.; `take care of number one' means to put your own interests first". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for number one?

Close synonyms include first, first, number 1. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is number one a common word?

number one is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.