Meaning of alone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. pure, clear
2. By oneself, solitary.
   not-comparable, predicative
3. alone, sheer, mere, just, nothing less than
4. Not involved in a romantic relationship.
   not-comparable, predicative
5. only, merely
6. Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.
   not-comparable, predicative
7. cigar, puro
8. Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
   not-comparable, obsolete, predicative
9. a fine
10. Mere; consisting of nothing further.
    not-comparable, obsolete, predicative
11. Unique; rare; matchless.
    not-comparable, obsolete, predicative

Equivalents

Examples

“I can't ask for help because I am alone.”

“It is not good that the man should be alone.”

“Alone on a wide, wide sea.”

“When Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. special forces during a historic raid in his native homeland, he wasn't alone. His wife, Cilia Flores, was also detained.”

“Senator Craddock wants to abolish the estate tax, and she's not alone.”

“I always organize my Halloween candy before eating it. Am I alone in this?”

“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.”

“If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by it all, you’re not alone.”

“There are proofs enough in History, and first that beautiful Hynes, so much beloved by Charles the seventh King of France, who valued the alone possession of her Love at so high a rate, that[…]”

“God, […] by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.”

“and therefore all Killing, Banishing, Fining, Imprisoning, and other such things, which Men are afflicted with, for the alone exercise of their Conscience, or difference in Worship or Opinion, proceedeth from the spirit of Cain, the Murderer, and is contrary to the Truth;”

“Pardon me, Proteus, all I can is nothing / To her, whose worth makes other worthies nothing; / She is alone.”

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