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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
loner
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I had always been a loner, and I hated sharing an apartment when I went to college.
▪ Joe is one of our best workers but he's too much of a loner to be a good leader.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each of these people is, like Carr, a loner who is quite at home with himself.
▪ I see myself as a loner.
▪ If one can not, one gets a deluded loner nursing a dummy.
▪ Mikhail Vologsky was essentially a loner, in both the physical and spiritual sense.
▪ Nixon, the loner, was a workhorse with determination.
▪ Peaceful and lively, the fish is best in small shoals because loners or pairs become nervous.
▪ Since the youths learn to hide their sexually deviant behavior, they tend to be loners.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
loner

"one who avoids company," 1946; see lone. Apparently first in U.S. baseball slang (earliest reference is to Ted Williams).\n\nTed is likable enough in spite of his obsession with his specialty. He is something of a "loner," and he refuses to pal around with his teammates in off hours, but in the clubhouse he does his share of the talking.

["Life" magazine, Sept. 23, 1946]

Wiktionary
loner

n. One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others.

WordNet
loner

n. a person who avoids the company or assistance of others [syn: lone wolf, lone hand]

Wikipedia
Loner (film)

Loner (; aka Orphaned or Hikikomori) is a 2008 South Korean film. The debut feature by director Park Jae-sik, Loner is a horror film about hikikomori, the phenomenon of reclusive individuals who have chosen to withdraw from social life.

Loner (disambiguation)

A loner is a person who does not actively seek, avoids, or is isolated from human interaction.

Loner may also refer to:

Loner

A loner is a person who avoids or does not actively seek human interaction. There are many reasons for solitude, intentional or otherwise. Intentional reasons include being introverted, spiritual, mystic and religious considerations or personal philosophies. Unintentional reasons involve being highly sensitive, extremely shy, past trauma or events, or having various mental disorders.

The modern term "loner" can be used with a negative connotation in the belief that human beings are social creatures and those that do not participate are deviant. Being a loner is sometimes depicted culturally as a positive personality trait, as indicative of being independent and responsible.

Loner (The Secret Circle)

"Loner" is the 3rd episode of the first season of the CW television series The Secret Circle, and the series' 3rd episode overall. It aired on September 29, 2011. The episode was written by Richard Hatem and it was directed by Colin Bucksey.

Loner (Black Sabbath song)

"Loner" is a song by English rock band Black Sabbath. It is the third single from their 2013 album 13, the first being " God Is Dead?". Although the album version did not receive a chart position, a live version of the song was officially released as a single via the Black Sabbath's YouTube channel on 17 October 2013.
This live version, featuring touring-only member Tommy Clufetos on drums, was recorded in Melbourne, Australia at the beginning of May during their reunion world tour. The performance was the world premier of the song. As well as being officially released on YouTube, the video was also featured along with the rest of the concert on the band's album and film Live... Gathered in Their Masses.

Loner (EP)

This is the first Ep for side project of Eisley member Stacy DuPree King, her husband and drummer for Mutemath Darren King, and Jeremy Larson. The album was released digitally on iTunes in September, 2014.

Usage examples of "loner".

But still, we thought we were dealing with an independent-minded bonder, a hardworking loner.

We both hailed from Long Island and we were both quintessential loners who had long ago escaped into solitary pursuits, his being photography, mine writing.

The guns came down and bore on one of the loners he had been looking at, a short, stoutish boy who was wearing a battered green silk vest.

Wilson Tenney or some other cruel loner up here, browsing, maybe even buying.

Hugh told them the scabrous story about the loner so fabu5 lously endowed that he was known as the Gatha Entire.

Anyway, what matters is that you are essentially a loner, a one man band, while Hardanger is just as essentially an organisation man.

Tregares first thought was that it could be a dal Nardo move, but Ingalls said the other fighter was a loner, fresh in from hunting bushstompers south of the Slab Jumbles.

The standover man is a loner, a predator who preys on other, more prosperous criminals, often extremely dangerous ones.

Even strigs, the loners that lived outside the nests, sought out contact.

You have to queue, and pay good money, to mingle with vituperative interpreters and flashlight-faced Japanese, balls-talking bumblers, vultures, students, loners, pick-ups, the determined samplers and consumers spun off by the thrashing city.

He was holed up in a service-flat block off Marble Arch a high-priced dosshouse for middle-management loners and transients, with the strict feel of the ward or the lab: fifty units of downward mobility, observable under controlled conditions.

Waller was at Needhelp for a spell, them two old loners got along like rum and butter.

Erratic, impulsive and imperious, Suarez has morphed into the delusional loner we once predicted of his predecessor, the tightly wound Joe Carollo.

Chapter Seven RV trianguli was an A3 giant, something of a loner as stars went.

In the submarine sanctum of the club itself you will find a Playboy pinball machine (the artwork depicts Hef flanked by two playmates in their nighties), a video game with a handwritten Out of Order notice taped to its screen, some backgammon tables, a wall of framed centrefolds, and an oval bar where two or three swarthy loners sit slumped over their drinks, staring at the waitresses with an air of parched and scornful gloom.