LONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lone mean? 

• LONE (adjective)
  The adjective LONE has 3 senses:

1. lacking companions or companionship

2. characterized by or preferring solitude

3. being the only one; single and isolated from others

  Familiarity information: LONE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking companions or companionship

Synonyms:

alone; lone; lonely; solitary

Context example:

a solitary traveler

Similar:

unaccompanied (being without an escort)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by or preferring solitude

Synonyms:

lone; lonely; solitary

Context example:

a solitary walk

Similar:

unsocial (not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Being the only one; single and isolated from others

Synonyms:

lone; lonesome; only; sole; solitary

Context example:

a solitary speck in the sky

Similar:

single (existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual)

 Context examples 

At last she shed tears on that subject, and said again that she was “a lone lorn creetur' and everythink went contrary with her”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But here on a lone roadside, with thick woods and robber-knights, I turn to you, for it is the business to which you have been reared.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lone star's behavior has similarities to FU Orionis, a young outbursting star that had an initial three-month outburst in 1936-7.

(Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE, NASA)

The grey light of day that remained lasted until three o'clock, when it, too, faded, and the pall of the Arctic night descended upon the lone and silent land.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Yet how, on this dark and doleful evening, could you so suddenly rise on my lone hearth?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Based on these new occultation observations, team members say MU69 may not be not a lone spherical object, but suspect it could be an extreme prolate spheroid – think of a skinny football – or even a binary pair.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)

The Ghost has attained the southernmost point of the arc she is describing across the Pacific, and is already beginning to edge away to the west and north toward some lone island, it is rumoured, where she will fill her water-casks before proceeding to the season’s hunt along the coast of Japan.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I am a lone lorn creetur',” were Mrs. Gummidge's words, when that unpleasant occurrence took place, “and everythink goes contrary with me.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There, buzzing in the air at the tip of his nose, was a lone mosquito.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)