the.com/single
The only relationship status that doesn't require you to text back.
means Being one — unattached, unpaired, and not currently answering to anyone else's schedule.
from From Latin 'singulus,' meaning 'one at a time, individual,' a diminutive form built from 'simplus/simul' roots tied to the idea of 'one.' It came into English through Old French 'sengle,' keeping that core sense of oneness — whether describing a lone item, an unmarried person, or eventually a chart-topping song released on its own.
- tax term
- filing status with its own bracket, no partner required
- music term
- one song released alone, hoping to date the charts
- baseball term
- gets you to first base, nowhere near commitment
- myth
- not the same as lonely, despite what rom-coms claim