Emily Dickinson Lexicon

alone, adv. [ME alane; see all, adv. and one, adj.; completely by one's self.] (webplay: all, company, condition, itself, man, name, one, only, place, present, remain, separate, single, solitary, suffer, two, without).

1. Isolated; secluded; unattended; without companions; as the only one; with no one else present.
2. Lonely; lonesome; forlorn; friendless; desolate; solitary; abandoned.
3. Vulnerable; defenseless; unprotected.
4. Otherwise unaccompanied; amongst ourselves only; together but separate from any others; near to each other but away from the company of other people.
5. Only; solely; exclusively; without other factors.
6. By itself; on its own volition.
7. Phrase. “All alone”: totally by oneself; completely solitary.