1. Without accompaniment; solitary: a lone skier on the mountain.
2. Being the only one; sole: the lone doctor in the county.
3. Situated by itself: a lone tree on the prairie; a lone blue tile in a white floor.
2. single or isolated: a lone house.
1. being alone; solitary; unaccompanied: a lone traveler.
2. standing by itself or apart; isolated: a lone house in the valley.
3. sole; single; only: our lone competitor in the field.
Adj. 1. lone - 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"
2. lone - characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a solitary walk"
3. lone - 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"
single - existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness"
alone, companionless, lonely, lonesome, single, solitary, unaccompanied.
fancy-free, footloose, single, sole, spouseless, unattached, unmarried, unwed.
one, only, particular, separate, single, singular, sole, solitary, unique.
Idioms: first and last, one and only.
alone, apart, detached, isolate, isolated, removed, solitary.
He has always been a lone voice on many issues → Il a toujours été le seul à s'exprimer sur nombre de questions.
Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf, That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod No foot of man,) commend thyself to God!
At length upon the lone Chorasmian shore He paused--"
Tattered flank and sunken eye, open mouth and red, Locked and lank and lone they lie, the dead upon their dead.
And howl he did, like a lone gray timber wolf, till the Virgin thrust her pretty fingers in her ears and shivered.
Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tranquil seas.
Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
That softening of feeling towards him which dated from his misfortune, that merging of suspicion and dislike in a rather contemptuous pity for him as lone and crazy, was now accompanied with a more active sympathy, especially amongst the women.
With an army at their call it were an easy thing to take a lone man, even though that man were the Devil of Torn.
At last she shed tears on that subject, and said again that she was 'a lone lorn creetur' and everythink went contrary with her'.
Almost universally, a lone whale --as a solitary Leviathan is called --proves an ancient one.