alone 
alone (ə lōn′)
adjective, adverb
- apart from anything or anyone else the hut stood alone on the prairie
- without involving any other person to walk alone
- without anything further; with nothing more; only the carton alone weighs two pounds
- without equal or peer to stand alone as an example of courage
let alone
- to refrain from bothering or interfering with
- not to speak of we hadn't a dime, let alone a dollar
let well enough alone
to be content with things as they are and not try to improve them
alone
modif.
Separate from others
lone, lonely, solitary, separate, lonesome, deserted, forlorn, lorn, isolated, individual, forsaken, desolate, detached, companionless, friendless, unaccompanied, unescorted, abandoned, secluded, apart, by oneself, under one's own power, unassisted, unaided, single-handed, single, widowed, unmarried, unattached, solo, solus (Latin), in solitude, by one's lonesome*. Antonyms
accompanied, attended, escorted. Exclusive of others
Unique
unparalleled, unexampled, unequaled; see unique 1.
alone, unqualified, denotes the simple fact of being by oneself or itself; solitary and the more poetic lone convey the same sense but suggest more strongly the lack of companionship or association a solitary tree in the meadow a lone wanderer; lonely conveys a heightened sense of solitude and gloom the lonely sentinel walks his post; lonesome suggests a longing or yearning for companionship, often for a particular person the child is lonesome for her mother
let alone
not to mention, not to speak of, also, in addition to; see besides.ignore, leave to oneself, isolate, refrain from disturbing;
let well enough alone
Modifies a noun
- cannot: But this alone cannot determine the question of invasion of neighboring states.
- unit: Firstly, food court locations and secondly, stand alone units.
- application: It also includes a compiler for making stand alone applications.
- account: Reprocessing alone accounts for about 80 % of the collective dose impact of the French nuclear industry.
- child: And of course if they are then what right do the ufologists have to inflict such torture upon adults ( let alone children )?
- student: Nintendo machines are traditionally hard for established companies to get a foothold on, let alone students.
Modifying Another Word
- not: Well you're not alone ' cos there's bare of us and we don't all fit the stereotype.
'Oh Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands of Dee.' The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she.
All we ask is to be let alone.
Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.
On est un peu seul dans le de¤ sert. öOn est seul aussi chez les hommes. One is a little bit alone in the desert. One is also alone among others.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Alone The word is life endured and known. It is the stillness where our spirits walk And all but inmost faith is overthrown.
Alone until she dies,Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Er l a« chelte und sagte: 'Von mir willst du denWeg erfahren?' 'Ja,'sagte ich,'da ich ihn selbst nich finden kann.' 'Gibs auf, gibs auf,'sagte er und wandte sich mit einem groÞen Schwunge ab, so wie Leute, die mit ihrem Lachen allein sein wollen. Hesmiled and said: 'Youasking metheway?' 'Yes,'Isaid, 'since I cannot find it myself.' 'Give it up! Give it up!'said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
This truthöto prove, and make thine own: 'Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.'
But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose?
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to.One is always alone.
Ach da ich irrte, hatt' ich viel Gespielen, Da ich dich kenne, bin ich fast allein. Ah! while I erred I had many friends. Now that I know you, I am alone.
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e¤ tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.
The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone.
Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
For the present at any rate, I must proceed alone. I must plough my own furrow aloneöbut before I get to the end of that furrow, it is possible that I may not find myself alone.
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
Never to be bored, never to be frustrated, never to be alone.
There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.
And theL Godsaid,It isnot good thatthemanshould be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Dieu cre¤ a l'homme, et ne le trouvant pas assez seul, il lui donne une compagne pour lui faire mieux sentir sa solitude. God created man and, finding him not sufficientlyalone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
'A manain't got no hasn't got any can't really isn't any way out One man alone ain't gotno chance.
But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or notöa fool among fools or a fool alone.
Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersöthat is, to be let alone.
In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.
Down to Gehenna or up to theThrone, He travels fastest who travels alone.
I want to be alone.
Self-respectcomes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments in quiet places when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the
As you walk through the storm, Hold your head up high, And don't be afraid of the dark, At the end of the storm, Is a golden sky, And the sweet silver song of the lark, Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on, With hope in your hearts, And you'll never walk alone, You'll never walk alone.
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