lone
adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ləʊn//
- United States//loʊn//
Solitary; having no companion.
adjective
- 1
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.
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.
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.
- 2
Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
- 3
Sole; being the only one of a type.
the lone male audience member at the concert
- 4
Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
a lone house; a lone isle
By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
- 5
archaicUnfrequented by human beings; solitary.
Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
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.
- 6
archaicSingle; unmarried, or in widowhood.
Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
- 7
Not divided into multiple districts.
lone congressional district
Etymology
Shortened from alone.
verb
- 1
Only used in lone it
Forms
- past tense
- loned
- past participle
- loned
- present participle
- loning
- third person singular
- lones