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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lone
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
father
▪ A quarter of lone fathers are over 50, reflecting their greater likelihood of being widowers.
▪ The proportion headed by a lone father, at 2%, has remained virtually unchanged in the last two decades.
figure
▪ At last a lone figure staggered out, singing raucously as he swaggered in a drunken stupor.
▪ But as I ploughed through the trough in the snow, a lone figure came weaving drunkenly towards me.
▪ Suddenly, as if on cue, a lone figure appears on a horse.
gunman
▪ But even proponents of the lone gunman theory acknowledge the wealth of interests served by Kabila's removal.
▪ A lone gunman with an apparent grudge can do great harm.
▪ Suddenly, a lone gunman appeared.
▪ Did lone gunmen commit both murders, as initial investigations concluded?
▪ So much for the lone gunman theory.
man
▪ The inequality between lone men and lone women is greatest among those aged 75 and over.
▪ A lone man was walking by and Ezra lowered his window and leaned out and asked the way to the cemetery.
▪ She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper.
▪ He was standing with his back to a tree as all lone men stand if they can who are attacked by many.
parent
▪ More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
▪ Thus the incomes of the lone parents were equivalent to about 57 percent of those of the couples.
▪ Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
▪ But nothing we could do would reverse fundamental social trends which were producing more and more lone parents.
▪ Most lone parents - both men and women - have been married and are separated or divorced from their former partners.
▪ The majority of lone parents become so as the result of separation, divorce or death.
▪ The proportion of all families headed by a lone parent has increased from 8 percent in 1971 to 16 percent in 1988.
▪ Two members lived in local authority homes and 15 in households characterised by unemployment and chronically sick and/or lone parents.
survivor
▪ One man, the lone survivor of the massacre, carried the gruesome story to Tihosuco.
▪ The lone survivor was a 2-1 / 4-year-old girl.
voice
▪ To have one lone voice attacking royalty in Jubilee week seemed perfectly fair.
▪ It never bothered her before to be a lone voice.
wolf
▪ You know how he is - a lone wolf.
▪ From far off where the Zoo lay the howl of a lone wolf wound up into the night.
▪ I got the impression you're something of a lone wolf.
woman
▪ The inequality between lone men and lone women is greatest among those aged 75 and over.
▪ The 29 men and one lone woman arrived here in 1859.
▪ Or did they simply betray the presence of a lone woman in a dark deserted place?
▪ The bulk of this increase comes from families headed by a lone woman and, most often, a divorced woman.
▪ Some 42 percent of households containing an elderly person consist of a lone woman.
▪ In these circumstances it is hardly surprising that many lone women parents do not work.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plough a lonely/lone furrow
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lone figure in the snow
▪ A lone gunman burst into his house and shot him dead.
▪ Councilman Dexter cast the lone "no" vote.
▪ Out of the stillness, a lone bird began to sing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lone naked bulb dangled from the ceiling.
▪ Apparently, the murder of the lone black, Penn, was unworthy of note.
▪ Family graves may occasionally receive a visit by a lone person shouldering a glum aura.
▪ For start-ups it was the lone inventor in a garage.
▪ He suffered from post-traumatic stress because of a lone confrontation with eight youths two years earlier.
▪ It never bothered her before to be a lone voice.
▪ Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.
▪ This was the time when the lone and often despairing voice of dissent was heard from the terraces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lone

Lone \Lone\, n. A lane. See Loanin. [Prov. Eng.]

Lone

Lone \Lone\, a. [Abbrev. fr. alone.]

  1. Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.

    When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
    --Shenstone.

  2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic]

    Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
    --Collection of Records (1642).

    A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
    --Shak.

  3. Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. `` A lone isle.''
    --Pope.

    By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
    --Byron.

  4. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.

    Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
    --Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lone

late 14c., "having no companion, solitary," shortening of alone (q.v.) by weakening of stress or else by misdivision of what is properly all one. The Lone Star in reference to "Texas" is first recorded 1843, from its flag. Lone wolf in the figurative sense is 1909, American English.

Wiktionary
lone

a. 1 solitary; having no companion. 2 isolated or lonely; lacking companionship. 3 sole; being the only one of a type. 4 situate by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours. 5 (lb en archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary. 6 (lb en archaic) single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

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WordNet
lone

  1. adj. lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler" [syn: alone(p), lone(a), lonely(a), solitary]

  2. characterized by or preferring solitude in mode of life; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "a lone wolf"; "a man of a solitary disposition" [syn: eremitic, eremitical, lone(a), solitary]

  3. being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" [syn: lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary(a)]

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Wikipedia
Lone (disambiguation)

Lone is a Kashmiri tribe.

Lone may also refer to:

Lone (musician)

Matt Cutler, better known as Lone, is a British electronic musician from Nottingham, England.

Lone

Lone is a Kashmiri tribe in the Kashmir Valley of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Lone tribe is based mainly in northern Kashmir, although in the past few centuries there has been gradual diffusion of the tribe throughout the valley of Kashmir. However, now the tribe also is concentrated in the Kupwara district of the Kashmir valley.

In 1911 census, the total Lone population in the state of Jammu and Kashmir was 51931. Out of this there were 8126 found in the Jammu division, 354 in Gilgit and Baltistan, and the rest in the Kashmir division.

Although the vast majority of the Lone tribe speak Kashmiri as their mother language, significant numbers speak Shina, especially those who live in the Gurez valley.

Many Kashmiris of Lone tribe also live in Azad Kashmir and Punjab regions of Pakistan in cities such as Lahore, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Jhelum and Rawalpindi. Many Lones use Khwaja or Bhat as their surnames in these areas of Punjab.

Lone (river)

The Lone is a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Usage examples of "lone".

The purpose of those killings could only have been to dupe whoever was on the receiving end of those subconscious television messages into believing that this Abraxas character is some sort of Lone Ranger, spreading good wherever he goes.

One lone Aerian flew across the cavernous space, his gray wings unfolding beneath colored glass.

Or virtue either, than an anchoret Who mortifies the flesh in some lone cave.

Should a lone air raider fly over Manhattan and drop a single demolition bomb in the blackened hollow where the Argyle Museum was flanked by towering skyscrapers, there would be utter devastation among the priceless antiquities that old Henry had accumulated.

Dropping the useless arquebus, Raibert sensed that his only chance now lay in escapefor who ever heard of a lone, common man trying to fight a Monster out of Hell with only a pistol and an old chlaidhimhland while he could go back the way he had come, the Monster seemed headed that way too .

The lone waitress managed to tear herself away from the game show on the holovision long enough to approach Becker and ask what he wanted.

Members must work in pairs to prevent fuckups and to avoid situations where the club can lose face a lone biker is a tempting target for punks trying to impress each other.

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

He looked to his sides, taking in the size and might of his tank battalion, then back at Bong and the lone PFC standing behind him.

I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.

In Bushido, the life of one lone samurai mattered less than the capture of a murderer and traitor.

Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting his trial on a charge of High Treason against her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, etc.

This coincident symmetry did not astonish the lone brown eye that watched from above.

It was a coldish morning, the sky very pale and the sea very dark blue with little white caps of foam, and there, a little way off on the starboard bow, was the nearest of the Lone Islands, Felimath, like a low green hill in the sea, and behind it, further off, the grey slopes of its sister Doorn.

Was it any more preposterous to assume that Old Conc was merely a clever Xican than a lone one-way traveler from far distant Earth?