lone
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- Regno Unito//ləʊn//
- Stati Uniti//loʊn//
Solitary; having no companion.
aggettivo
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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.
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Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
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Sole; being the only one of a type.
the lone male audience member at the concert
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Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
a lone house; a lone isle
By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
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arcaicoUnfrequented 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.
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arcaicoSingle; unmarried, or in widowhood.
Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
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Not divided into multiple districts.
lone congressional district
Etimologia
Shortened from alone.
verbo
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Only used in lone it
Forme
- passato
- loned
- participio passato
- loned
- participio presente
- loning
- 3ª persona singolare
- lones