lone
See also: Lone
English
Etymology
Shortened from alone.
Adjective
lone (not comparable)
- Solitary; having no companion.
- a lone traveler or watcher
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shenstone
- When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
- 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 20230794, page 01:
- 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.
- Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
- Sole; being the only one of a type.
- Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
- a lone house; a lone isle
- (Can we date this quote?) Lord Byron
- By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
- (archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- (archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
- Collection of Records (1642)
- Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
- Collection of Records (1642)
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Translations
having no companion
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situated with no neighbours
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