lone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lōn
ipa: /ləʊn/
ipa: /loʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: loan
Etymology: Shortened from alone.
Senses: examples: text: a lone traveler or watcher
text: When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
ref: 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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 22 Jan 2020:
glosses: Solitary; having no companion.
glosses: Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
examples: text: the lone male audience member at the concert
glosses: Sole; being the only one of a type.
examples: text: a lone house;  a lone isle
text: By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXV:
glosses: Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
examples: text: Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
ref: c. 1715, Alexander Pope, Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount:
text: 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.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
examples: text: Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
ref: Collection of Records (1642)
text: A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
ref: 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]:
glosses: Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
examples: text: lone congressional district
topics: government
politics
synonyms: at-large
glosses: Not divided into multiple districts.
raw_tags: of an election or elected position
Synonyms: sense: sole
word: only
Derived terms: word: lone gunman
word: lone it
word: loneness
word: lone pair
word: loner
word: lone rangering
word: lone star tick
word: lone wolf
english: town
translation: town
word: Lone Wolf
word: no-lone zone
Related terms: alone
lonely
lonesome