lone
/loʊn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
Example Sentences
- "a lone traveler or watcher"
- "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."
- "The director of a school in Thailand's central province of Sing Buri is in police custody under suspicion of being the lone perpetrator of a gold shop robbery at a mall in Lop Buri province on January 9th, during which three people, including a two-year old^([sic]) boy, were murdered and four others [were] wounded."
- "the lone male audience member at the concert"
- "a lone house; a lone isle"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /loʊn/
- British English: /ləʊn/