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lone | wone |

As a proper noun lone

is .

As a noun wone is

(obsolete|or|archaic|poetic) a dwelling or wone can be (obsolete|poetic) a house, home, habitation or wone can be custom, habit, practice.

As a verb wone is

(obsolete|or|archaic|dialectal) to live, reside, stay.

lone

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Solitary; having no companion.
  • :
  • *(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)
  • *:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • *(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.
  • Synonyms

    * only

    Derived terms

    * lone gunman * lone wolf

    Anagrams

    * ----

    wone

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).

    Alternative forms

    * won, wonne

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, or, archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), '', Volume 2, vii:20 (''see also xii:11)
  • What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold
    So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye?
    Or where hast thou thy wonne , that so much gold
    Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?
  • * 1748 , , I:XXXVII
  • On the cool height awhile out Palmers ?tay,
    And ?pite even of them?elves their Sen?es chear;
    Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ?teer.

    Verb

    (won)
  • (obsolete, or, archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
  • * 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17
  • Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned.
  • * 1596 , '', Volume 2, iii:18 (''see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)
  • For now the best and noblest knight alive
    Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond;
    He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond.

    Etymology 2

    Southern variant of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • custom, habit, practice
  • use, usage
  • Synonyms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) ----