Lone

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lone \Lone\, n.
     A lane. See {Loanin}. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Lone \Lone\, a. [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
        watcher.
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              When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared,
              And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
                                                    --Shenstone.
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     2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic]
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              Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.   --Collection
                                                    of Records
                                                    (1642).
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              A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman
              to bear.                              --Shak.
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     3. Being apart from other things of the kind; being by
        itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a
        lone house. " A lone isle." --Pope.
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              By a lone well a lonelier column rears. --Byron.
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     4. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
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              Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls,
              And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lone
       adj 1: lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we
              met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone
              skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a
              tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary
              traveler" [syn: {alone(p)}, {lone(a)}, {lonely(a)}, {solitary}]
       2: characterized by or preferring solitude in mode of life;
          "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony";
          "a lone wolf"; "a man of a solitary disposition" [syn: {eremitic},
           {eremitical}, {lone(a)}, {solitary}]
       3: being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the
          lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an
          only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a
          solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the
          sky" [syn: {lone(a)}, {lonesome(a)}, {only(a)}, {sole(a)},
           {solitary(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, withdrawn