Lone
[ləʊn] or [lon]
Definition
(adj.) being the only one; single and isolated from others; 'the lone doctor in the entire county'; 'a lonesome pine'; 'an only child'; 'the sole heir'; 'the sole example'; 'a solitary instance of cowardice'; 'a solitary speck in the sky' .
(adj.) characterized by or preferring solitude; 'a lone wolf'; 'a lonely existence'; 'a man of a solitary disposition'; 'a solitary walk' .
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Definition
(n.) A lane. See Loanin.
(a.) Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.
(a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
(a.) Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.
(a.) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
Typist: Mason
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Solitary, isolated, secluded, lonely, alone.[2]. Unfrequented, deserted, uninhabited, unoccupied, lonesome.
Typist: Tyler
Definition
adj. alone: solitary: retired: standing by itself.—ns. Lone′liness Lone′ness.—adj. Lone′some solitary: dismal.—adv. Lone′somely.—n. Lone′someness.
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Examples
- It is a priest of Juno that stands before me, watching late and lone at a shrine in an Argive temple. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet how, on this dark and doleful evening, could you so suddenly rise on my lone hearth? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mas'r, let me lone for dat, said Sambo, I'll tree de coon. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Then he sealed it and addressed it to Captain James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a certainty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have never know'd her to be lone and lorn, for a single minute, not even when the colony was all afore us, and we was new to it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Last night I stopped at a little lone tavern, back on the road. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But more terrible, and far more obscure, was the unveiled course of my lone futurity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I shall delight to pass the shores of those lone rock-islets where the sea-birds live and breed unmolested. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The dawn is up--the guest is gone, The cottage hearth is blazing still; Heaven pity all poor wanderers lone! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am a lone lorn creetur', and had much better not make myself contrary here. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I know how 'tis; I know you think that I am lone and lorn; but, deary love, 'tan't so no more! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At last she shed tears on that subject, and said again that she was 'a lone lorn creetur' and everythink went contrary with her'. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I know that I am a lone lorn creetur', and not only that everythink goes contrary with me, but that I go contrary with everybody. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Maybe you'll write to me too, Dan'l, odd times, and tell me how you fare to feel upon your lone lorn journies. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I am unprovided for, and am leaving every friend on earth, to wander about for a lone lodging in a dismal village. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We waited long for news of the Lone Star of Savannah, but none ever reached us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Seek her in a little while, my lone lorn Dan'l, and that'll be but right! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- How could I expect to be wanted, being so lone and lorn, and so contrary! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The calm, lone scene reassured her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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