Lone Meaning
/ləʊn/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjSolitary; having no companion.
adjIsolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
Sentence Examples
"Now that I think of it, where's Tanimoto?" "Playing the lone wolf, as always."
A lone sailboat is sailing against the wind.
CEFR Practice Quiz
A ____ wolf wandered through the empty forest at dusk.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ hiker spent several weeks exploring the remote and beautiful wilderness of the northern mountains.
Word Origin & History
Shortened from alone.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered."
— 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules:
"The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."
— 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
"The director of a school in Thailand's central province of Sing Buri is in police custody under suspicion of being the lone perpetrator of a gold shop robbery at a mall in Lop Buri province on January 9th, during which three people, including a two-year old^([sic]) boy, were murdered and four others [were] wounded."
— 2020 January 22, “School director arrested as a suspect in Lop Buri gold shop robbery”, in Thai PBS World, Bangkok: Thai Public Broadcasting Service, retrieved 22 Jan 2020:
"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:
"Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls."
— c. 1715, Alexander Pope, Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A ____ wolf wandered through the empty forest at dusk.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ hiker spent several weeks exploring the remote and beautiful wilderness of the northern mountains.