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Webster 1913 Edition


Lone

Lone

,
Noun.
A lane. See
Loanin
.
[Prov. Eng.]

Lone

,
Adj.
[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.
Shakespeare
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lone

LONE

,
Adj.
1.
Solitary; retired; unfrequented; having no company.
And leave you in lone woods or empty walls.
2.
Single; standing by itself; not having others in the neighborhood; as a lone house.
3.
Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

LONE

,
Noun.
A lane. [Local.]

Definition 2024


Lone

Lone

See also: lone

Danish

Proper noun

Lone

  1. A female given name.

References

  • Danskernes Navne: 29 237 females with the given name Lone have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the popularity peak in the 1960s. Accessed on March 20th, 2011.

Norwegian

Etymology

From Danish Lone. First recorded in Norway in 1848.

Proper noun

Lone

  1. A female given name.

References

  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
  • Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 1251 females with the given name Lone living in Norway on January 1st 2011. Accessed on March 29th 2011.

lone

lone

See also: Lone

English

Adjective

lone (not comparable)

  1. Solitary; having no companion.
    a lone traveler or watcher
    • William Shenstone (1714–1763)
      When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
    • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:
      The Bat—they called him the Bat. []. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  2. Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
  3. Sole; being the only one of a type.
  4. Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
    a lone house; a lone isle
    • Lord Byron (1788-1824)
      By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
  5. (archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
    • Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
      Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
  6. (archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
    • Collection of Records (1642)
      Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
    • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
      A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.

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Afrikaans

Noun

lone

  1. plural of loon

Dutch

Verb

lone

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lonen