Lone vs Wone - What's the difference?
lone | wone |
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, or, archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), '', Volume 2, vii:20 (''see also xii:11)
* 1748 , , I:XXXVII
(obsolete, or, archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
* 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17
* 1596 , '', Volume 2, iii:18 (''see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)
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
(-)Synonyms
* onlyDerived terms
* lone gunman * lone wolfAnagrams
* ----wone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* won, wonneNoun
(en noun)- 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?
- 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)- Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned.
- 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.