Alone \A*lone"\, a. [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. [=a]n
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. --Coleridge.
It is not good that the man should be alone. --Gen.
ii. 18.
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. --Luke iv. 4.
The citizens alone should be at the expense.
--Franklin.
3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.]
God, by whose alone power and conversation we all
live, and move, and have our being. --Bentley.
4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. --Shak.
Note: The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.
To let or leave alone, to abstain from interfering with
or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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