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Lone   /loʊn/   Listen
Lone

adjective
1.
Lacking companions or companionship.  Synonyms: alone, lonely, solitary.  "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"
2.
Characterized by or preferring solitude.  Synonyms: lonely, solitary.  "A lonely existence" , "A man of a solitary disposition" , "A solitary walk"
3.
Being the only one; single and isolated from others.  Synonyms: lonesome, only, sole, solitary.  "A lonesome pine" , "An only child" , "The sole heir" , "The sole example" , "A solitary instance of cowardice" , "A solitary speck in the sky"



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"Lone" Quotes from Famous Books



... wonderment that those, Who see us most and love us best, Find that a true affection grows The more when, in its parted nest, It spends long hours in lone repose! ...
— The Mistress of the Manse • J. G. Holland

... thet holdin' slaves Comes nat'ral tu a Presidunt, Let 'lone the rowdedow it saves To hev a wal-broke precedunt; Fer any office, small or gret, I could n't ax with no face, Without I 'd ben, thru dry an' wet, Th' ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell

... half-opened entrance. Shadowy forms flitted to and fro between the official tent and the lights beginning to twinkle at brigade headquarters across the wide roadway. An orderly scratched at the tent flap, but got no answer. The lone occupant sat well back in the gloomy interior and could barely be distinguished. The waiting soldier hesitated a moment, then entered and stamped once upon the wooden floor, then turned and noiselessly stepped out, for, anticipating ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King

... I lay in some lone wood to weep and wail, for that my heart should be so hard a one. Now I had not been there long when I thought there were some who had come to hear me speak in my sleep; but I went on with my moans. At this they said with a laugh that I was a fool. Then I saw a Bright One with wings ...
— The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable • Mary Godolphin

... stretching of hands In gloom; and my feet, Treading tremulous over hard sands; A wind that wailed wearily slow, A plashing of waters below, A twilight on bleak lone lands, Spread out; and a sheet Of the ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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