Word Study
lone
CIDE DICTIONARY
lone, n.
A lane. See Loanin. [1913 Webster]
lone, a. [Abbrev. fr. alone.].
- Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher. [1913 Webster]"When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared,
And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered." [1913 Webster] - Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [1913 Webster]"Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman." [1913 Webster]"A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear." [1913 Webster]
- Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. Pope. [1913 Webster]"By a lone well a lonelier column rears." [1913 Webster]
- Unfrequented by human beings; solitary. [1913 Webster]"Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls,
And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lone, attrib.adj.
1 (of a person) solitary; without a companion or supporter.
2 (of a place) unfrequented, uninhabited, lonely.
3 literary feeling or causing to feel lonely.
1 (of a person) solitary; without a companion or supporter.
2 (of a place) unfrequented, uninhabited, lonely.
3 literary feeling or causing to feel lonely.
Idiom
lone hand
1 a hand played or a player playing against the rest at quadrille and euchre.
2 a person or action without allies. lone wolf a person who prefers to act alone.
1 a hand played or a player playing against the rest at quadrille and euchre.
2 a person or action without allies. lone wolf a person who prefers to act alone.
Etymology
ME, f. ALONE
THESAURUS
lone
a certain, abandoned, absolute, alienated, all alone, alone, aloof, an, any, any one, apart, atomic, azygous, celibate, companionless, deserted, detached, either, exclusive, first and last, forsaken, friendless, homeless, impair, in solitude, individual, indivisible, insular, integral, irreducible, isolated, kithless, lonely, lonesome, monadic, monistic, odd, one, one and only, only, only-begotten, particular, removed, rootless, secluded, separate, separated, simple, single, single-handed, singular, sole, solid, solitary, solo, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unanalyzable, unassisted, unattended, undivided, unescorted, unexampled, uniform, unique, unitary, unpaired, unrepeatable, unrepeated, unseconded, unsupported, whole, withdrawnROGET THESAURUS
lone
Unity
N unity, oneness, individuality, solitude, isolation, unification, one, unit, ace, individual, none else, no other, one, sole, single, solitary, unitary, individual, apart, alone, kithless, unaccompanied, unattended, solus, single-handed, singular, odd, unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last, isolated, insular, monospermous, unific, uniflorous, unifoliate, unigenital, uniliteral, unijocular, unimodal, unimodular, lone, lonely, lonesome, desolate, dreary, insecable, inseverable, indiscerptible, compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable, singly, alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the singular number, in the abstract, one by one, one at a time, simply, one and a half, sesqui-, natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa, du fort au faible, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.For further exploring for "lone" in Webster Dictionary Online