lone

English Online Dictionary. What means lone‎? What does lone mean?

English

Etymology

Shortened from alone.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lōn
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /loʊn/

• Rhymes: -əʊn

• Homophone: loan

Adjective

lone (not comparable)

1. Solitary; having no companion.
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.
5. (archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
6. (archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
   • Collection of Records (1642)

     Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
7. (Philippines, politics, of an election or elected position) Not divided into multiple districts.

   Synonym: at-large (US)

Synonyms

• (sole): only

Derived terms

Related terms

• alone
• lonely
• lonesome

Translations

Anagrams

• Noël, Leno, Noel, leno, neol., Léon, one L, Nole, noël, Leon, nole, Elno, noel, NOEL, elon, enol, Elon, León

Afrikaans

Noun

lone

1. plural of loon

Dutch

Verb

lone

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lonen

Middle English

Noun

lone

1. (Northern, West Midlands) Alternative form of lane

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔɲe]

Noun

lone n

1. locative singular of lono

Yola

Noun

lone

1. Alternative form of lhoan

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52