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Webster 1913 Edition
Lone
Lone
,Adj.
[Abbrev. fr.
alone
.] 1.
Being without a companion; being by one’s self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely;
as, a
. lone
traveler or watcherWhen I have on those pathless wilds a appeared,
And the
And the
lone
wanderer with my presence cheered. Shenstone.
2.
Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
[Archaic]
Queen Elizabeth being a
lone
woman. Collection of Records (1642).
A hundred mark is a long one for a poor
lone
woman to bear. Shakespeare
3.
Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort;
“ A lone isle.” as, a
. lone
housePope.
By a
lone
well a lonelier
column rears. Byron.
4.
Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls,
And leave you on
And leave you on
lone
woods, or empty walls. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lone
LONE
,Adj.
1.
Solitary; retired; unfrequented; having no company.And leave you in lone woods or empty walls.
2.
Single; standing by itself; not having others in the neighborhood; as a lone house.3.
Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.LONE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Lone
Lone
See also: lone
Danish
Proper noun
Lone
- A female given name.
References
- Danskernes Navne: 29 237 females with the given name Lone have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the popularity peak in the 1960s. Accessed on March 20th, 2011.
Norwegian
Etymology
From Danish Lone. First recorded in Norway in 1848.
Proper noun
Lone
- A female given name.
References
lone
lone
See also: Lone
English
Adjective
lone (not comparable)
- Solitary; having no companion.
- a lone traveler or watcher
- William Shenstone (1714–1763)
- When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:
- 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.
- Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
- Sole; being the only one of a type.
- Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
- a lone house; a lone isle
- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
- (archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- (archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
- Collection of Records (1642)
- Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
- William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
- A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
- Collection of Records (1642)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from lone
Related terms
Translations
having no companion
sole
situated with no neighbours
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