lone

See also: Lone and lône

English

Etymology

Shortened from alone.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ləʊn/
(US) IPA^(key): /loʊn/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊn
Homophone: loan

Adjective

lone (not comparable)

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 20230794, 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.
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 1015450009, 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.
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
  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 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
  A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.

Synonyms

only

Derived terms

lone gunman
lone wolf

Related terms

alone

Translations

having no companion

Arabic: مُنَعْزِل‎ (munaʿzil)
Bashkir: яңғыҙ (yaŋğıð)
Bulgarian: сам (bg) (sam)
Cherokee: ᎤᏩᏌ (uwasa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 孤独的 (zh) (gūdú de)
Dutch: alleen (nl)
Finnish: yksinäinen (fi)
French: seul (fr) m
German: einzeln (de)
Haitian Creole: sèl
Hebrew: בּוֹדֵד‎ (he) m (bodéd)
Hungarian: egyedül (hu)
Irish: aonarach, aonartha, aonarúil
Italian: solo (it)
Japanese: 一人の (ひとりの, hitori no)
Karaim: yañhız
Kazakh: жаңғыз (jañğyz), жалғыз (kk) (jalğyz)
Korean: 고독의 (godogui)
Kumyk: янгуз (yañuz)
Kyrgyz: жаңгыз (ky) (jaŋgız)
Northern Altai: чаҥыс (čaŋïs)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ensom (no)
Portuguese: só (pt)
Russian: одино́кий (ru) (odinókij)
Southern Altai: јаҥыс (ǰaŋïs)
Spanish: solo (es)
Swedish: ensam (sv)
Tatar: яңгыз (yañgız)
Telugu: ఒంటరి (te) (oṇṭari)
Tocharian B: ṣeske
Tuvan: чаңгыс (çañgıs)

isolated

Bulgarian: уединен (bg) (uedinen)
Finnish: yksinäinen (fi)
French: seul (fr) m, isolé (fr) m

sole

Bashkir: берҙән-бер (berðän-ber)
Bulgarian: самотен (bg) (samoten)
Cherokee: ᎤᏩᏌ (uwasa)
Finnish: yksi (fi), ainoa (fi)
French: unique (fr) m or f
Greek:
Ancient: μόνος (mónos)
Hebrew: יְחִידִי‎ m (yeḥidí)

situated with no neighbours

Finnish: yksinäinen (fi)
French: isolé (fr) m

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Noun

lone

plural of loon

Dutch

Verb

lone

(archaic) singular present subjunctive of lonen

Slovak

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈlone]

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 (1867), 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, page 52