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English
Etymology
Shortened from alone.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lone (not comparable)
- Solitary; having no companion.
a lone traveler or watcher
1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules: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, 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.
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 2020-01-22: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 boy, were murdered and four others [were] wounded.
- Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
- Sole; being the only one of a type.
the lone male audience member at the concert
- Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
a lone house; a lone isle
- (archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
c. 1715, Alexander Pope, Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1848, →OCLC: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.
- (archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
- Collection of Records (1642)
- Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
Synonyms
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Translations
situated with no neighbours
Anagrams
- Elon, Leno, Leon, León, NOEL, Noel, Nole, Noël, elon, enol, leno, neol., noel, nole, noël, one L
Afrikaans
Noun
lone
- plural of loon
Dutch
Verb
lone
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lonen
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
lone n
- locative singular of lono
Yola
Noun
lone
- Alternative form of lhoan
1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:F. brone, eelone, hone, lone, sthone, sthrone.- E. brand, island, hand, land, stand, strand.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52