lone
UK/ləʊn//loʊn/
lone adjective: solitary; having no companion.
Adjective
lone (not comparable)
- Solitary; having no companion.
- a lone traveler or watcher
- When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules
- Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
- Sole; being the only one of a type.
- the lone male audience member at the concert
- Synonyms:
- only
- Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
- a lone house; a lone isle
- By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXV
- Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
- Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.c. 1715, Alexander Pope, Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount
- He made a turn or two in the shop, and looked for Hope among the instruments; but they obstinately worked out reckonings for the missing ship, in spite of any opposition he could offer, that ended at the bottom of the lone sea.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
- 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.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Not divided into multiple districts.
- lone congressional district
- Synonyms:
- at-large
Verb
lone (third-person singular simple present lones, present participle loning, simple past and past participle loned)
- Only used in lone it
lone meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
lone in Tamil
- lone, single, solitary
- தனி taṉi
lone in Urdu
- اکیلا, الگ تھلگ, سنسان, سونا, تنہا, اجاڑ
lone in Bengali
- নির্জন, একাকী, একা, স্বতন্ত্র, একান্ত, নির্জনবাসী
lone in Telugu
- having no companion
- ఒంటరి oṇṭari
More languagesFewer languages
- lone in Malayalam
- തനിച്ചായ, ഏകനായ, ഏകാകിയായ, ഏകാകിനിയായ
- lone in Kannada
- ಒಂಟಿ
- lone in Arabic
- مُنَعْزِل munaʕzil
Examples of lone in a sentence
- The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
- The lone farmstand worker, sympathetic to my fugue state, encouraged me to try one—raw.
- Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo described the shooting as a "lone wolf" attack.
Synonyms of lone
Forms of lone
| third-person singular present | lones |
|---|---|
| present participle | loning |
| past participle | loned |
| past | loned |
Origin of lone
Shortened from alone.
Words formed from lone
Phrases with lone
- Lone Pine
- lone pairs
- Lone Scout
- lone gunmen
- lone ranger
- Lone Scouts
- lone wolfer
- lone wolves
- lone rangers
- lone wolfers
- no lone zone
- Lone Star State
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with lone
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- throne
- atone
- clone
- crone
- prone
- depone
- hone
- loan
- cologne
- condone
- disenthrone
- disown
- eau de cologne
- enthrone
- groan
- intone
- roan
- Sloan
- Sloane
- thrown
- unknown
- bemoan
- cobblestone
- Copplestone
- grown
- joan
- known
- none
- overgrown
- pension
- phone
- postpone
- redstone
- sone
- Stallone
- answer phone
- arthron
- beknown
- cauterizing stone
- compone
- crosne
- crown
- cuboidal bone
- cuttlefish bone
- Ediphone
- enzone
- flown
- Four Shire Stone
Questions about lone
- What does lone mean?
- Lone means solitary; having no companion.
- What is lone in Tamil?
- Lone in Tamil is தனி (taṉi). See Lone meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lone?
- Lone can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lone?
- Lone is pronounced /ləʊn/ (UK).
Words near lone in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lone (page history and authors); தனி (Tamil) (page history and authors); lone (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lone (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lone (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lone (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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