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- Dictionarylone/ləʊn/
adjective
- 1. having no companions; solitary or single: "I approached a lone drinker across the bar" Similar
- 2. (of a place) unfrequented and remote: literary "houses in lone rural settings" Similar Opposite
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being the only one in a place or situation; standing alone: Her singing is backed by a lone piano. (Definition of lone from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of lone. lone. Two forces, then, are active in the conflict, where one lone figure is pitted against a phalanx. From the Cambridge English Corpus
The meaning of LONE is having no company : solitary. How to use lone in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Lone.
being the only one in a place or situation; standing alone: Her singing is backed by a lone piano. (Definition of lone from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of lone. lone. By now, lone wolf violence of this sort appears irrational to us. From Huffington Post.
Lone definition: being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied. See examples of LONE used in a sentence.
If you talk about a lone person or thing, you mean that they are alone. A lone woman motorist waited for six hours for help yesterday because of a name mix-up. He was shot by a lone gunman.
adjective. being the only one; single and isolated from others. “the lone doctor in the entire county” synonyms: lonesome, only, sole, solitary. single. existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual. adjective. lacking companions or companionship. “the lone skier on the mountain” synonyms: alone, lonely, solitary.
Definition of lone adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
