lone

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Scrabble points
4
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ləʊn/(UK)
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/ləʊn/(UK) · /loʊn/(US)

Definition of lone

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (not-comparable)Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
  3. (not-comparable)Sole; being the only one of a type.
    “the lone male audience member at the concert”
  4. (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.”
  5. (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.”
  6. (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.”
  7. (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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