"loner" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈloʊnɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-loner.wav [Southern-England] Forms: loners [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ) Etymology: From lone + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lone|er}} lone + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} loner (plural loners)
  1. One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others. Categories (topical): People, Stock characters Synonyms: solitary, recluse Derived forms: lonerish Translations (one who lacks or avoids company): 獨來獨往 (Chinese Mandarin), 独来独往 (dúláidúwǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), samotář [masculine] (Czech), enspænder (Danish), eenling [masculine] (Dutch), eenzaat [masculine] (Dutch), yksineläjä (Finnish), erakko (Finnish), yksinäinen susi (Finnish), solitaire [feminine, masculine] (French), can sen dono [masculine] (Galician), Einzelgänger [masculine] (German), Eigenbrötler [masculine] (German), ερημίτης (erimítis) [masculine] (Greek), einfari [masculine] (Icelandic), eremita [masculine] (Italian), solitario [masculine] (Italian), ぼっち (botchi) [slang] (Japanese), оса́меник (osámenik) [masculine] (Macedonian), penyendiri (Malay), einstøing [masculine] (Norwegian), āngenġa [masculine] (Old English), samotnik [masculine] (Polish), solitário (Portuguese), bicho do mato (Portuguese), одино́чка (odinóčka) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), бирю́к (birjúk) [masculine] (Russian), aonaran [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), solitario [masculine] (Spanish), huraño [masculine] (Spanish), ensamvarg [common-gender] (Swedish), särling [common-gender] (Swedish), enstöring [common-gender] (Swedish), yalnız (Turkish), soliter (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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          "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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          "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "code": "mk",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "einstøing"
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      "code": "ang",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "samotnik"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "word": "solitário"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "word": "bicho do mato"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "odinóčka",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "word": "одино́чка"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "birjúk",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aonaran"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "solitario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "särling"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "enstöring"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "word": "yalnız"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "one who lacks or avoids company",
      "word": "soliter"
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  "word": "loner"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.