lone

[lohn]

adjective

1. being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied.

   a lone traveler.

2. standing by itself or apart; isolated.

   a lone house in the valley.

   Synonyms: secluded, separate

3. sole; single; only.

   That company constitutes our lone competitor in the field.

4. unfrequented.

5. without companionship; lonesome; lonely.

6. unmarried or widowed.

lone

/ ləʊn /

adjective

1. unaccompanied; solitary

2. single or isolated

   a lone house

3. a literary word for lonely

4. unmarried or widowed

Other Word Forms

• loneness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of lone¹

1325–75; Middle English; aphetic var of alone, used attributively

Word History and Origins

Origin of lone¹

C14: from the mistaken division of _alone into a lone

Synonym Study

See alone.

Example Sentences

Puso Dithejane scored the lone goal of the first half for Galaxy and Keita completed a sweeping move covering the length of the pitch to double the lead on 84 minutes.

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Pajaree, the final qualifier in the field of 60, had an eagle and six birdies against a lone bogey, her eagle at the sixth helping leap her into contention.

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Only then did the backbone scale: We went from server closets wedged next to the mop sink to data centers and cloud regions, from lone system administrators to fulfillment networks, cybersecurity and compliance.

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Corpuz answered her lone bogey at the third hole with birdies on the next four, another to begin the back nine and two more at the par-three 16th and par-five 17th.

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The lone "nay" came from the Republican lawmaker from Louisiana, Clay Higgins, who defied his party saying his vote was a principled "NO".

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Related Words

• lonely 
• sole 
• solitary