Lone Ranger
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7.7
- noun
- /loʊn ˈreɪndʒər/
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lone ranger
- During the project, she was the Lone Ranger, tackling all the challenges without anyone's help.
- Lone Ranger out there
Not one single success story that I studied was a Lone Ranger.
- Not one single success story that I studied was a Lone Ranger.
- He really wants people to be like solitary lone Rangers and a self-contained unit within the team.
- They go here and they become The Lone Ranger.
- Masculinity defined as like a Lone Ranger or a I'm my own man is the least masculine sentence I think you could ever utter.
Examples
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- I feel like the Lone Ranger.
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It's the Lone Ranger!
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The Lone Ranger rides again.
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You want to be the Lone Ranger or the Cisco Kid?
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But the Lone Ranger and Tonto were good guys.
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But he's the Lone Ranger.
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Mr. Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger, right over here.
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I'm a Lone Ranger.
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I'm the Lone Ranger.
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I was kind of a Lone Ranger, but I hired some of my high school friends to go to some of these counties because there were sixteen of them and I couldn't really do it all myself.
Synonyms
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4.2
A person who prefers to be alone and avoids spending time with others
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5.0
A person who prefers to do things alone rather than with others
A person who prefers to act or be alone without help
Antonyms
How Independent
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7.7
2
7.9
984
2.3
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1
3.5
182
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'lone' (solitary) + 'ranger' (a person serving as an officer or agent), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a person who acts alone. While the capitalized form evokes a specific cultural character, the core compositional sense of an independent/solitary actor is transparent and immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Lone Ranger comes from a famous old American cowboy hero who wore a mask and rode alone to help people. Here Lone means 'alone' and Ranger means someone who 'protects' others, so the phrase now describes a person who acts by themselves to solve problems.