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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. without companionship; lonesome; lonely.
  5. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈloneness, noun
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Other Words From

  • loneness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lone1

1325–75; Middle English; aphetic var of alone, used attributively
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lone1

C14: from the mistaken division of alone into a lone
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Synonym Study

See alone.
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Example Sentences

In the Terrapins’ dreadful performance Friday at Penn State, Ayala was the lone bright spot.

Last week, the full Senate also voted to strip Chase of her lone committee assignment.

Canadian Tire jumped in to sponsor the lone NWHL club in Canada this month, and the team has also attracted Cleveland Clinic Canada.

Beal would have been the lone full-time starter available Friday.

As they wound their way through the halls, one group found themselves face-to-face with a lone police officer.

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“During this trip, I did as a lone wolf, I risked a lot,” he said.

Bratton was not ready to say that Brinsley was acting as part of a group or as anything but a lone monster.

They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies.

His lone stable was a girl from Newport News, Virginia, who had already escaped one nightmare.

The incident still might have sparked trouble because that lone bullet proved fatal for a man who was black.

"Oh, well, it's easy to lose track of a lone man in a country as big as this," he returned suavely.

I wonder if that square-jawed devil has got a glimpse of us and is trying a lone-handed stalk himself?

The lone pine on the stone cap of Gander Knob waved its farewell, and we clattered down the long slope into the great world.

That he would camp near Lone Jack on the evening of the fifteenth, and wanted Thompson to join him thar.

He was almost certain that he saw a black silk cape whipping out from the shoulders of the lone man in the car.

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