at once
adv/ət ˈwʌns/UK
Etymology
From Middle English at ones, equivalent to at + once.
- inherited from at ones
Definitions
At the same time
At the same time; simultaneously; together.
- Can you pat your head and rub your belly at once? He tried to eat four cookies at once.
- [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
Immediately
Immediately; now; right away.
- Tell the doctor to come at once. She is having a baby.
In one group
In one group; together.
- And they all atonce begane to make excuſe. The fyrſt ſayd vnto him: I have bought a ferme / and I muſt nedes goo and ſe it / I praye the have me excuſed.
- Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]
- Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessany payns [...].
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for at once. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA