Alone
A·lone
Alone
a.
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Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
It is not good that the man should be alone.
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Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
The citizens alone should be at the expense.
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Sole; only; exclusive. [R.]
God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
- Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.
Phrases & Compounds
- To let alone
- to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.
Alone
adv.
- Solely; simply; exclusively.