at once
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ət ˈwʌns/
at once (not comparable)
- (obsolete) In one group; together.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
- Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessany payns [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
- (idiomatic) At the same time; simultaneously.
- Can you pat your head and rub your belly at once?
He tried to eat four cookies at once.
- Can you pat your head and rub your belly at once?
- (idiomatic) Immediately; now; right away.
- Tell the doctor to come at once. She is having a baby.
- French: d'un seul coup
- Italian: insieme
- Russian: вме́сте
- French: en même temps, à la fois
- German: auf einmal, gleichzeitig
- Italian: contemporaneamente
- Portuguese: ao mesmo tempo
- Russian: одновре́менно
- Spanish: a la vez
- French: tout de suite, immédiatement, aussitôt
- German: sofort, unverzüglich
- Italian: immediatamente, subito
- Portuguese: na hora
- Russian: сра́зу
- Spanish: enseguida, ahora mismo
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