lone
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2.7
- adjective
- /loʊn/
:
solitario
- The lone child stood at the edge of the playground, watching the other kids play.
- a lone wolf
- a lone voice
- a lone figure
I know Warren Commission people, pro lone assassin who say it's absurd.
- I know Warren Commission people, pro lone assassin who say it's absurd.
- And don't represent the work of a lone scientist burning the midnight oil.
- Boundless and bare, the lone level sands stretch far away.
- A huge wreck of stones on a lone and desolate spot.
- There is one lone exception to this.
- So this guy's like a fucking lone lone survivor.
- Just like, yo-yo, yo, student, lone dad, real talk.
- I don't care how many, like, you know, lone wolfs there are, they ain't happy, right?
Examples
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In Fort Wayne, Indiana, a lone grave sits atop a hill in the middle of an empty field.
Academic text (2011) -
To be most effective in this job, I have to be a bit of a lone wolf.
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There is one lone exception to this.
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I see this lone figure - a woman who's maybe just come off a bus.
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And somewhere in that nowhere was another lone prospector.
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A huge wreck of stones on a lone and desolate spot.
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Malcolm is bent over in prayer, a lone figure in a huge mosque.
Fiction book (1992) -
A handful of pine trees stood as lone sentinels to watch a comet whip across the sky.
Fiction book (1992) -
At the rear of the procession, a lone pygmy strums an unusual string instrument.
Fiction book (1990) -
The vast majority of India's political commentators applauded India's lone position at the U.N. General Assembly.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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1.0
The single person or thing of its kind
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1.0
For one person or thing, not shared with others
253
3.7
Only one person or thing not shared with others
191
4.6
Being alone and not with other people or things
78
4.2
Feeling separated from other people and having little contact
14
4.6
Without another person to go with you
7
3.5
Alone and not near other people or things
Alone with no one to be with you
Antonyms
Compounds
How Alone
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lone comes from the older word alone, which itself grew from the idea all + one meaning 'single'. So, lone means 'alone' or being the only one present.