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UK [əˈləʊn] / US [əˈloʊn] adjective, adverb
Summary:

Alone can be used in the following ways: - as an adjective (never before a noun): I was alone in the house. - as an adverb: Kim prefers to travel alone. ♦ He alone knows where the files are hidden.
1) without anyone with you
a) if you are alone, there is no one else with you

Shelley is divorced and lives alone.

all alone (= completely alone):

She was all alone in a dark forest.

b) used when two people are together and no one else is there

It was forbidden for an unmarried couple to be alone together.

alone with:

Roger hadn't had a chance before to be alone with Therese.

2) lonely feeling that you have no friends and that no one cares about you

Jim said goodnight and left, feeling sad and alone.

alone in the world (= not having any friends anywhere):

I felt completely alone in the world.

3) without any help if you do something alone, you do it without any help from other people

He is so severely disabled that he cannot manage alone.

Was the killer acting alone?

4) [never before noun] without including anything else without including numbers or amounts from anywhere else

Kazakhstan alone had more than 100 different nationalities.

The team earned over a million pounds from television alone last year.

5) [never before noun] the only person or thing used for emphasizing that a particular person or thing is the only one that has something or can do something

He alone was allowed to make decisions on foreign policy.

Time alone will show whether the voters made the right choice.

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be alone in (doing) something — [usually in negatives or questions] to be the only person that does something

Miller was not alone in his opposition to the war.

Am I alone in thinking that Biggs could be wrong?

leave/let someone alone — to stop annoying or criticizing someone

I wish they'd just leave me alone.

You let Peter alone. He's not done anyone any harm.

leave/let something alone — if you leave something alone, you do not touch it or do anything to it; to stop trying to deal with something

Leave those flowers alone – you're going to spoil them.

It's not your problem, so why don't you just leave it alone?


English dictionary. 2014.

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