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lone |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered. --Shenstone. 2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic] Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman. --Collection of Records (1642). A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. --Shak. 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. By a lone well a lonelier column rears. --Byron. 4. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary. Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. --Pope. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lone \Lone\, n. A lane. See {Loanin}. [Prov. Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [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}, {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)}]
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