lone
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/ləʊn/(UK)
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/ləʊn/(UK) · /loʊn/(US)
Definition of lone
7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Solitary; having no companion.
“a lone traveler or watcher”
“When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.”
“The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.”
“The director of a school in Thailand's central province of Sing Buri is in police custody under suspicion of being the lone perpetrator of a gold shop robbery at a mall in Lop Buri province on January 9th, during which three people, including a two-year old^([sic]) boy, were murdered and four others [were] wounded.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Solitary; having no companion.
“a lone traveler or watcher”
“When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.”
“The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.”
“The director of a school in Thailand's central province of Sing Buri is in police custody under suspicion of being the lone perpetrator of a gold shop robbery at a mall in Lop Buri province on January 9th, during which three people, including a two-year old^([sic]) boy, were murdered and four others [were] wounded.”
- (not-comparable)Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
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(not-comparable)Sole; being the only one of a type.
“the lone male audience member at the concert”
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(not-comparable)Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
“a lone house; a lone isle”
“By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.”
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(archaic, not-comparable)Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
“Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.”
“He made a turn or two in the shop, and looked for Hope among the instruments; but they obstinately worked out reckonings for the missing ship, in spite of any opposition he could offer, that ended at the bottom of the lone sea.”
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(archaic, not-comparable)Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
“Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.”
“A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.”
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(Philippines, not-comparable)Not divided into multiple districts.
“lone congressional district”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Shortened from alone.
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