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alone | self |

As an adjective alone

is by oneself, solitary.

As an adverb alone

is by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.

As a proper noun self is

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alone

English

(wikipedia alone)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • By oneself, solitary.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) ii. 18
  • *:It is not good that the man should be alone .
  • *(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • *:Alone on a wide, wide sea.
  • Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
  • :
  • *(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
  • *:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
  • Considered separately.
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone , people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
  • Without equal.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author= Ian Traynor
    • , volume=189, issue=11, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Rise of Europe's new autocrats , passage=Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.}}
  • (lb) Unique; rare; matchless.
  • :(Shakespeare)

    • Usage notes

    * Used after what it modifies.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
  • Without outside help.
  • Exclusively.

    • Usage notes

    * Unlike most focusing adverbs, alone typically appears after a noun phrase. *: Only the teacher knew'' vs. ''The teacher alone knew

    Synonyms

    * (by oneself) lone, lonely, single, solitary, solo * (without outside help) singlehandedly, by myself * (exclusively)

    Derived terms

    * alonely * leave alone * let alone

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    self

    English

    (wikipedia self)

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
    • This argument was put forward by the defendant self .
  • Myself.
    • I made out a cheque, payable to self , which cheered me up somewhat.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self . It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
  • * (1788-1856)
  • *:The self , the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
  • *, chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
  • (lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

    • Derived terms

    * selfie

    Related terms

    * selfdom * selfhood * selfish * selfless * selflike * selfsame * myself, ourselves, yourself, thyself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself, one's self

    See also

    * self- * person * I * ego

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
  • (botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

    • Antonyms

    * outcross

    Adjective

  • (obsolete) same
  • * 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , I.i:
    • I am made of that self mettle as my sister.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • on these self hills
  • * Dryden
    • At that self moment enters Palamon.

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