Alone
Alone ({not transcribed}) , adjective
[All + one. Old English al one all allone, Anglo-Saxon ān one, alone. See All, One, Lone.]
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
Sole; only; exclusive. [Rare]
God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
4.
Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. — Shakespeare
The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.
Collocations (1)
To let alone or To leave alone , to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.
Alone , adverb
Solely; simply; exclusively.