lone en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ləʊn/ (UK)
- /loʊn/ (US)
- lōn
Etymology
Shortened from alone.
Meanings
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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.
1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules: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.
2020 January 22, “School director arrested as a suspect in Lop Buri gold shop robbery”, in Thai PBS World, Bangkok: Thai Public Broadcasting Service, retrieved 22 Jan 2020: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.
1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
- (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.
By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXV:a lone house; a lone isle
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(archaic, not-comparable) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
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.
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
c. 1715, Alexander Pope, Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount:
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(archaic, not-comparable) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
Collection of Records (1642)
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(Philippines, not-comparable, of an election or elected position) Not divided into multiple districts.
lone congressional district
Deriveds
lone star tick · Lone Butte · loneness · lone rangering · lone wolf · Lone Wolf · lone it · no-lone zone · lone pair · lone gunman · loner
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Synonyms
Translations (50)
txb ṣeske (having no companion) · he יְחִידִי (sole) · fi ainoa (sole) · ba берҙән-бер (sole) · kdr jalhyz (having no companion) · te ఒంటరి (having no companion) · ja 一人の (having no companion) · kum янгыз (having no companion) · ga aonarach (having no companion) · ota یالڭز (sole) · es solo (having no companion) · ota یالڭز (having no companion) · tyv чаңгыс (having no companion) · ar مُنَعْزِل (having no companion) · eo sola (having no companion) · fr unique (sole) · fi yksi (sole) · ky жалгыз (having no companion) · chr ᎤᏩᏌ (sole) · mi tōtahi (sole) · fi yksinäinen (situated with no neighbours) · bg уединен (isolated) · fr isolé (situated with no neighbours) · hu egyedül (having no companion) · chr ᎤᏩᏌ (having no companion) · fr seul (isolated) · fr seul (having no companion) · fi yksinäinen (having no companion) · bg сам (having no companion) · he בּוֹדֵד (having no companion) · tt ялгыз (having no companion) · fi yksinäinen (isolated) · alt јаҥыс (having no companion) · ga aonarúil (having no companion) · de einzeln (having no companion) · atv ньагыс (having no companion) · ht sèl (having no companion) · bg самотен (sole) · ga aonartha (having no companion) · ko 고독의 (having no companion) · pt só (having no companion) · grc μόνος (sole) · ru одино́кий (having no companion) · nb ensom (having no companion) · sv ensam (having no companion) · nl alleen (having no companion) · kk жалғыз (having no companion) · ba яңғыҙ (having no companion) · fr isolé (isolated) · it solo (having no companion)