lone
[ lohn ]
/ loʊn /
adjective
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied: a lone traveler.
standing by itself or apart; isolated: a lone house in the valley.
sole; single; only: That company constitutes our lone competitor in the field.
unmarried or widowed.
Origin of lone
1325–75; Middle English; aphetic var of
alone, used attributively
synonym study for lone
1. See
alone.
OTHER WORDS FROM lone
lone·ness, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH lone
loan loneWords nearby lone
londoner,
londonesque,
londonistan,
londres,
londrina,
lone,
lone hand,
lone pair,
lone star state,
lone wolf,
lonely
Example sentences from the Web for loneness
The one human thing, with the goblins before me—Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—Alone!
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 |Ministry of EducationThen they were alone, and it was a loneness such as an eagle might feel when it held itself poised high in the curve of blue.
The Lost Prince |Frances Hodgson Burnett
British Dictionary definitions for loneness
lone
/ (ləʊn) /
adjective (prenominal)
unaccompanied; solitary
single or isolated
a lone house
a literary word for lonely
unmarried or widowed
Derived forms of lone
loneness, nounWord Origin for lone
C14: from the mistaken division of
alone into
a lone