different between lone vs alone

English

Etymology

Shortened from alone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo?n/

• Rhymes: -??n

• Homophone: loan

Adjective

lone (not comparable)

1. Solitary; having no companion.
   • 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules

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

   • 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.
2. Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
3. Sole; being the only one of a type.
4. Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
5. (archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
   • c. 1715, Alexander Pope, Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount

     Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.

6. (archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
   • Collection of Records (1642)

     Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.

Synonyms

• only

Derived terms

Related terms

• alone

Translations

Anagrams

• Elon, Leno, Leon, León, NOEL, Noel, Nole, Noël, elon, enol, leno, neol., noel, nole, noël, one L

Afrikaans

Noun

lone

1. plural of loon

Dutch

Verb

lone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lonen

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lone]

Noun

lone n

1. locative singular of lono

Yola

Noun

lone

1. Alternative form of lhoan

English

Etymology

From Middle English allone, from earlier all oon (“alone”, literally “all one”), contracted from the Old English phrase eall ?n (“entirely alone, solitary, single”), equivalent to al- (“all”) +? one. Cognate with Scots alane (“alone”), Saterland Frisian alleene (“alone”), West Frisian allinne (“alone”), Dutch alleen (“alone”), Low German alleen (“alone”), German allein (“alone”), Danish alene (“alone”), Swedish allena (“alone”). More at all and one. Regarding the different phonological development of alone and one, see the note in one.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??lo?n/, enPR: ?-l?n?
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /??lu?/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Hyphenation: a?lone

Adjective

alone (comparative more alone, superlative most alone)

1. By oneself, solitary.
   • 1611, King James Version, Genesis ii. 18

     It is not good that the man should be alone.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     Alone on a wide, wide sea.

2. (predicatively, chiefly in the negative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, practices, etc.
3. (obsolete) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
4. (obsolete) Mere; consisting of nothing further.
5. (obsolete) Unique; rare; matchless.

Derived terms

• alonely

Translations

Adverb

alone (not comparable)

1. By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.

   Synonyms: by one's lonesome, solitarily, solo; see also Thesaurus:solitarily

2. Without outside help.

   Synonyms: by oneself, by one's lonesome, singlehandedly; see also Thesaurus:by oneself

3. Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.
   1. Not permitting anything further; exclusively.

      Synonyms: entirely, solely; see also Thesaurus:solely
   2. Not requiring anything further; merely
   3. (by extension) Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset.
      • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Usage notes

• Unlike most focusing adverbs, alone typically appears after a noun phrase.

  Only the teacher knew vs. The teacher alone knew

Derived terms

• leave alone
• let alone
• stand-alone

Translations

Anagrams

• Enola, Leano, Leona, NOAEL, anole

Italian

Etymology

From Latin halo.

Noun

alone m (plural aloni)

1. halo
2. glow

Anagrams

• anelo, anelò