Shortened from alone.

• (British) IPA: /ləʊn/
• (America) IPA: /loʊn/

lone (not comparable)

1. Solitary; having no companion.

   a lone traveler or watcher

   • 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules:

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

   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwptej;view=1up;seq=5 page 01]:

     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.

   the lone male audience member at the concert

4. Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.

   a lone house;  a lone isle

   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC ↗, stanza LXV:

     By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.

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.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:

     He made a turn or two in the shop, and looked for Hope among the instruments; but they obstinately worked out reckonings for the missing ship, in spite of any opposition he could offer, that ended at the bottom of the lone sea.

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

     Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.

   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

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

• (sole) only

• alone
• lonely
• lonesome

• French: seul
• German: einzeln
• Italian: solo
• Portuguese: só
• Russian: одино́кий
• Spanish: solo

• French: seul, isolé

• French: unique

• French: isolé