# lone
## English
### Etymology

Shortened from alone.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: lōn
* (UK) IPA: /ləʊn/
* (US) IPA: /loʊn/
* Audio (US):(file)
    Rhymes: -əʊn
* Homophone: loan

### Adjective

lone (not comparable) (chiefly attributively, otherwise archaic or poetic)
* Solitary; having no companion.
    a lone traveler or watcher
** 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
** 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01: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.
** 2020 January 22, “School director arrested as a suspect in Lop Buri gold shop robbery”, in Thai PBS World‎, Bangkok: Thai Public Broadcasting Service, retrieved 2020-01-22: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 boy, were murdered and four others [were] wounded.
* Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
* Sole; being the only one of a type.
    the lone male audience member at the concert
* Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
    a lone house;  a lone isle
** 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXV:By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
* (archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
** c. 1715, Alexander Pope, Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
** 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC: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.
* (archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
** Collection of Records (1642)
    Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
* (Philippines, politics, of an election or elected position) Not divided into multiple districts.
    Synonym: at-large (US)
    lone congressional district

#### Synonyms

* (sole): only

#### Derived terms

* lone gunman
* lone it
* lone pair
* lone rangering
* lone star tick
* Lone Wolf (town)
* lone wolf
* no-lone zone

#### Related terms

* alone
* lonely
* lonesome

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Noël, Leno, Noel, leno, neol., Léon, one L, Nole, noël, Leon, nole, Elno, noel, NOEL, elon, enol, Elon, León

## Afrikaans
### Noun

lone
* plural of loon

## Dutch
### Verb

lone
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lonen

## Middle English
### Noun

lone
* (Northern, West Midlands) Alternative form of lane

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɔɲe]

### Noun

lone n
* locative singular of lono

## Yola
### Noun

lone
* Alternative form of lhoan
** 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:F. brone, eelone, hone, lone, sthone, sthrone.E. brand, island, hand, land, stand, strand.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52