lone

See also: Lone

English

Shortened from alone.

lone (not comparable)

Solitary; having no companion.

a lone traveler or watcher
- William Shenstone (1714–1763)
  When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:
  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
- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
  By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
(archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
  Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
(archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
- Collection of Records (1642)
  Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
- William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
  A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.

Terms derived from lone

having no companion

isolated

sole

situated with no neighbours

lone

lone

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