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lone


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. "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." "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)

Origin: Abbrev. Fr. Alone.

Source: Websters Dictionary