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alone
[ uh-lohn ]
adjective
- separate, apart, or isolated from others:
I want to be alone.
Synonyms: unattended, unaccompanied, solitary, single
- to the exclusion of all others or all else:
One cannot live by bread alone.
He is alone among his peers in devotion to duty.
adverb
- solitarily; solo:
She prefers to live alone.
You alone hold the key to your happiness.
- without aid or help:
The baby let go of the side of the crib and stood alone.
alone
/ əˈləʊn /
adjective
- apart from another or others; solitary
- without anyone or anything else
one man alone could lift it
- without equal; unique
he stands alone in the field of microbiology
- to the exclusion of others; only
she alone believed him
- leave alone or leave be or let alone or let beto refrain from annoying or interfering with
- leave well alone or leave well enough alone or let well alone or let well enough aloneto refrain from interfering with something that is satisfactory
- let alonemuch less; not to mention
he can't afford beer, let alone whisky
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- a·lone·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alone1
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Idioms and Phrases
- leave / let well enough alone, to be satisfied with the existing situation; refrain from attempting to change conditions:
Marriages are often destroyed by relatives who will not let well enough alone.
- leave alone. leave 1( def 18 ).
- let alone. let 1( def 16 ).
More idioms and phrases containing alone
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Example Sentences
Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.
By contrast, John McCain, the eventual GOP nominee, had raised approximately $12.7 million in the first quarter of 2007 alone.
Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.
Women and children are disproportionately victims, but they are not alone.
Ten minutes later, veiled and cloaked, she stepped out alone into the garden.
The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
When we were mounted Mac leaned over and muttered an admonitory word for Piegan's ear alone.
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
Alone Orlean lay trying vainly to forget something—something that stood like a spectre before her eyes.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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