lone English

Meaning lone meaning

What does lone mean?

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lone Adjective

— If you are lone, you are isolated and have no companion. Dan avoids talking to others and is a bit of a lone wolf.

— The only one.

lone

— adjective (= lonely, solitary) characterized by or preferring solitude a lone wolf a lonely existence a man of a solitary disposition a solitary walk

— adjective (= alone, lonely, solitary) lacking companions or companionship he was alone when we met him 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

— adjective (= lonesome, only, sole, solitary) being the only one; single and isolated from others the lone doctor in the entire county a lonesome pine an only child the sole heir the sole example a solitary instance of cowardice a solitary speck in the sky

Synonyms lone synonyms

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single

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forlorn

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solo

on one’s own

isolated

deserted

by oneself

unsupported

unmarried

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unattended

unassisted

stray

stranded

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single handed

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secluded

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cloistral

bleak

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• What words describe the only person or thing?
  only sole the one lone solitary alone one and only single

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Simple sentences

I am perhaps a bit of a lone wolf.

Mothers often leave young behind while feeding offshore. Even a lone sea otter or seal pup is probably not abandoned!

Tom is a lone wolf.

He's a lone wolf.

The Lone Ranger got on his horse and rode off into the sunset.

A lone clownfish was swimming in the aquarium.

Movie subtitles

I've been a lone wolf for a while, you know?

Far into the icy north, deep into the silent nowhere, came an undaunted lone prospector.

And somewhere in that nowhere was another lone prospector.

In that raging nowhere was a lone cabin, and another lone man, Black Larson, an unmitigated, predatory scoundrel.

Two lone human beings meet and cling together, exchange their secret dreams, forgetting that tomorrow they'll feel deserted and unhappy again.

That after birth, the child was left with one lone woman.

It's OK to push us tramps around but that lady is playing a lone hand.

Don't mind working a lone hand, do you?

A lone white horse.

And especially in those boots with the Lone Star stitched on them.

How can I, one lone man, be responsible for all these savages?

We can't forget the many sheep a lone wolf leaves wounded.

You ever hear of The Lone Rider of Santa Fe?

Just a lone wolf.

You mean my Lone Ranger badge.

Think ones who make war on white man. are from camp of Lone Buffalo.

One lone cannonball out of an entire broadside.

Gentlemen, that lone plane picks up plans, maps, secret military information, and the Voice of Terror's timed and recorded speech, and flies them to Germany.

Well, sir, I have a small detail of men stationed up above Lone Ridge.

Donald Duck, Ibsen and The Lone Ranger.

The truth is that a soldier has but one function in life, one lone excuse for existence. and that is to carry out the order of his superiors.

I figure a whole passel of guns'll pay better than a lone hand.

And you just aren't the lone wolf you think you are?

I guess I'm not the lone wolf I thought I was, Francie.

What does the Lone Ranger want?

I advertised for one lone competent secretary.

Looks to me as if you're trying to acquirea reputation as a lone wolf.

It's a lone, you'll give it back.

You aren't the lone wolf you think you are.

I propose a toast to a daughter of old Maryland. now blooming into a citizen of the Lone Star State. To the bride!

He's like a vulture, ready to prey on. a factory in bankruptcy or upon a lone woman.

The Lone Ranger.

I'm lone.

I'm so lone like you wouldn't believe.

And forced a smile, an awkward smile and lone.

News and current affairs

We have heard Texas Governor Rick Perry call obliquely for the lynching of his fellow Republican, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, should he come to the Lone Star State.

Jia's movie is episodic; four loosely linked stories about lone acts of extreme violence, mostly culled from contemporary newspaper stories.

No lone African country, for example, can overcome the crushing burden of malaria, a disease that claims perhaps 1million lives per year, and which causes around 800 million episodes of illness per year.

After being lone believers through 2002, Brazilian stock market participants are now finding that investors from all over the world want to join the party.

The world is, of course, far too complex for any lone person to fully grasp.

The world's lone superpower, the US, has demonstrated its disdain for supranational institutions and worked assiduously to undermine them.

A lone cow standing in a meadow.

Read the memoirs of the tsarist prime-minister Sergei Witte and you understand that, paradoxically, a liberally-minded progressive bureaucrat was back then, just as some in the small circle of officials around Yeltsin are today, the lone pillar of reform.

Will America hark back to the spirit of 1945 or, despite being sobered and disappointed, decide to stick to its lone and lonely path?

No lone scientist or national team can do this.

I was the lone dissenter.

But when even a lone elephant does a war dance, the grass still feels the pain.

Clearly, this policy would be more constructive than Saudi Arabia's desire for a lone-wolf role that merely results in a deadlock within and around the Gulf.

Yet, while lone wolves like Breivik are hard to detect, active members of terror organizations are much easier to detect and monitor.

A lone cow standing in a meadow. Pigs eating greedily from the family table.

Iran has been heavily invested in the Assad regime, its lone Arab ally and the main conduit for delivering material support to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

That is a worrying trend, and not only for Japan: South Korea can hardly stand alone as the lone Asian democracy.

The lone exception was Ignatz Bubis, the head of Germany's Jewish community.