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lone

–adjective

1.	being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied: a lone traveler.

2.	standing by itself or apart; isolated: a lone house in the valley.

3.	sole; single; only: That company constitutes our lone competitor in the field.

4.	unfrequented.

5.	without companionship; lonesome; lonely.

6.	unmarried or widowed.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME; aph. var of alone, used attributively

]

—Related forms

loneness, noun

—Synonyms 1. See alone. 2. separate, separated, secluded.

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adj.

1. Without accompaniment; solitary: a lone skier on the mountain.
2. Without companionship; isolated or lonely.
Being the only one; sole: the lone doctor in the county.
Situated by itself: a lone tree on the prairie; a lone blue tile in a white floor.

[Middle English, short for alone; see alone.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
lone

1377, aphetic shortening of alone (q.v.) by misdivision of what is properly al(l) one. The Lone Star in ref. to "Texas" is first recorded 1843, from its flag. First record of lonely is from 1607; lonesome from 1647. Loner "one who avoids company" first recorded 1947. Lone wolf in the fig. sense is 1909, Amer.Eng.

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lone
adjective
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]
2.	characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a solitary walk"
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"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
lone [ləun] adjective

solitary, without companions, by itself etc
Example: a lone figure on the beach

Arabic:	وَحيد، مُنْفَرِد
Chinese (Simplified):	孤独的
Chinese (Traditional):	孤獨的
Czech:	osamocený
Danish:	enlig
Dutch:	eenzaam
Estonian:	üksildane
Finnish:	yksinäinen
French:	solitaire
German:	einsam
Greek:	μόνος, μοναχικός
Hungarian:	magányos
Icelandic:	einn, einsamall
Indonesian:	sendirian
Italian:	solitario

Japanese:	孤独の
Korean:	고독한, 혼자의
Latvian:	viens pats; vientuļš
Lithuanian:	vienišas
Norwegian:	enslig, ensom
Polish:	samotny
Portuguese (Brazil):	sozinho
Portuguese (Portugal):	solitário
Romanian:	singur(atic)
Russian:	одинокий
Slovak:	osamotený
Slovenian:	samoten
Spanish:	solitario
Swedish:	ensam
Turkish:	yalnız

See also: lonely, lonesome

U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This

Lone Wolf, OK (town, FIPS 43850) Location: 34.99015 N, 99.24568 W
Population (1990): 576 (289 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 73655

Lone Tree, IA (city, FIPS 46335) Location: 41.48584 N, 91.42484 W
Population (1990): 979 (414 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 52755

Lone Star, TX (city, FIPS 43684) Location: 32.93740 N, 94.70851 W
Population (1990): 1615 (739 housing units)
Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 75668

Lone Star, SC Zip code(s): 29077

Lone Rock, WI (village, FIPS 45575) Location: 43.18447 N, 90.20171 W
Population (1990): 641 (288 housing units)
Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 53556

Lone Rock, IA (city, FIPS 46290) Location: 43.22040 N, 94.32486 W
Population (1990): 185 (88 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50559

Lone Pine, CA (CDP, FIPS 42580) Location: 36.57495 N, 118.08391 W
Population (1990): 1818 (914 housing units)
Area: 48.2 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 93545

Lone Oak, TX (town, FIPS 43636) Location: 32.99628 N, 95.94154 W
Population (1990): 521 (248 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 75453

Lone Jack, MO (village, FIPS 43760) Location: 38.87037 N, 94.16642 W
Population (1990): 392 (148 housing units)
Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 64070

Lone Grove, OK (city, FIPS 43750) Location: 34.18975 N, 97.27384 W
Population (1990): 4114 (1608 housing units)
Area: 124.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 73443

Lone Oak, KY (city, FIPS 47512) Location: 37.03611 N, 88.66608 W
Population (1990): 465 (224 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Lone Star, LA (CDP, FIPS 45267) Location: 29.92005 N, 90.34052 W
Population (1990): 1367 (483 housing units)
Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)

Lone Oak, GA (town, FIPS 47252) Location: 33.17203 N, 84.82011 W
Population (1990): 161 (61 housing units)
Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Lone Elm, KS (city, FIPS 42425) Location: 38.07972 N, 95.24226 W
Population (1990): 32 (18 housing units)
Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Lone

A*lone"\, a. [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. [=a]n one, alone. See All, One, Lone.]

1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.

Alone on a wide, wide sea. --Coleridge.

It is not good that the man should be alone. --Gen. ii. 18.

2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.

Man shall not live by bread alone. --Luke iv. 4.

The citizens alone should be at the expense. --Franklin.

3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.]

God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. --Bentley.