loner
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nər noun
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others: He was always a loner—no one knew him well.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | unaccompanied; solitary |
| 2. | single or isolated: a lone house |
| 3. | a literary word for lonely |
| 4. | unmarried or widowed |
| [C14: from the mistaken division of | |
| 'loneness | |
| —n | |
| loner (ˈləʊnə) | |
| —n | |
| informal a person or animal who avoids the company of others or prefers to be alone | |
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Word Origin & History
lone
late 14c., 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. Loner "one who avoids company" first recorded 1947. Lone wolf in the fig. sense is 1909, Amer.Eng.
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Example sentences
His sense of duty has also left him as something of a loner.
Or maybe it was because he was an unpretentious loner.
Five days later, these social flies were sleeping for about twice as long as loner flies who were kept in solitary confinement.
He grows up instead to be a depressive loner with several nervous breakdowns behind him.
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