lorn

[lawrn]

adjective

1. forsaken, desolate, bereft, or forlorn.

2. Archaic.,  lost, ruined, or undone.

lorn

/ lɔːn /

adjective

1. poetic,  forsaken or wretched

Other Word Forms

• lornness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of lorn¹

1250–1300; Middle English; Old English loren, past participle of -lēosan to lose (recorded in compounds)

Word History and Origins

Origin of lorn¹

Old English loren, past participle of -lēosan to lose

Example Sentences

SNP member Derek Pretswell, from the Oban and Lorn branch, argued that this would be a "fair mechanism" to achieve majority support for independence without seeking approval from the UK government.

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In 2002 Lorn - by then a student in Glasgow - found a small white elephant in a gift shop and sent it to her granny for Christmas.

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Lorn asked her aunt if she could unwrap it and put it in the coffin with her granny and she agreed.

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Friends also give Lorn elephants as gifts and she keeps these ones.

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When Lorn Pearson was a child she was fascinated by the big wooden elephant in her granny's house in the Scottish Highlands.

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