Lone vs Lorn - What's the difference?
lone | lorn |
Solitary; having no companion.
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*(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)
*:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
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*: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.
Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
Sole; being the only one of a type.
Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
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*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
(lb) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
(lb) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
*Collection of Records (1642)
*:Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
(obsolete) lost, doomed
(archaic) abandoned, lonely, forlorn
* 1874 , , XIX
* 1963': He never found his beloved machine gun. '''Lorn and drained-nervous, he was fired next day. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.
In archaic terms the difference between lone and lorn
is that lone is single; unmarried, or in widowhood while lorn is abandoned, lonely, forlorn.As adjectives the difference between lone and lorn
is that lone is solitary; having no companion while lorn is lost, doomed.lone
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* onlyDerived terms
* lone gunman * lone wolfAnagrams
* ----lorn
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(en adjective)- The mighty river flowing dark and deep, (...)
- Is named the River of the Suicides;
- For night by night some lorn wretch overweary,(...)
- Within its cold secure oblivion hides.