lone

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  1. adjective Without accompaniment; solitary: a lone skier on the mountain.
  2. adjective Without companionship; isolated or lonely.
  3. adjective Being the only one; sole: the lone doctor in the county.

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  1. Middle English, short for alone; see alone.

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  1. By apheresis from alone, as live from alive; lone and live being used attributively, while the full form, orig. a preposition phr., is used in the predicate.
  2. from Middle English lone, a variant of lane: see lane.
 

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