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LONE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being the only one; single and isolated from others
Example:
a solitary speck in the sky
Synonyms:
lone; lonesome; only; sole; solitary
Classified under:
Similar:
single (existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by or preferring solitude
Example:
a solitary walk
Synonyms:
lone; lonely; solitary
Classified under:
Similar:
unsocial (not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lacking companions or companionship
Example:
a solitary traveler
Synonyms:
alone; lone; lonely; solitary
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unaccompanied (being without an escort)
Context examples:
I had read sea-romances in my time, wherein figured, as a matter of course, the lone woman in the midst of a shipload of men; but I learned, now, that I had never comprehended the deeper significance of such a situation—the thing the writers harped upon and exploited so thoroughly.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I know that I am a lone lorn creetur', and not only that everythink goes contrary with me, but that I go contrary with everybody.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travellers.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I have never know'd her to be lone and lorn, for a single minute, not even when the colony was all afore us, and we was new to it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I say, this is a pretty warm reception for a poor lone wolf from the Arctic," the master said, while White Fang calmed down under his caressing hand.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Nothink's nat'ral to me but to be lone and lorn.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was all very well for half a dozen wolves to drive a lynx, spitting and bristling, up a tree; but it was quite a different matter for a lone wolf to encounter a lynx—especially when the lynx was known to have a litter of hungry kittens at her back.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Maybe you'll write to me too, Dan'l, odd times, and tell me how you fare to feel upon your lone lorn journies.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I know how 'tis; I know you think that I am lone and lorn; but, deary love, 'tan't so no more!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
