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Meaning of "let alone" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LET ALONE

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WHAT DOES LET ALONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of let alone in the English dictionary

The definition of let alone in the dictionary is much less; not to mention.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LET ALONE

let
let be
let bygones be bygones
let down
let fly
let go
let in
let in for
let in on
let into
let loose
let off
let off steam
let on
let one´s hair down
let oneself go
let out
let rip
let sleeping dogs lie
let slide

WORDS THAT END LIKE LET ALONE

abalone
alone
anticyclone
chalone
clone
cyclone
go it alone
home-alone
just leave well alone
leave alone
leave someone alone
leave well alone
lone
methaqualone
pallone
Pantalone
prednisolone
provolone
quinolone
stand-alone

Synonyms and antonyms of let alone in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «let alone» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LET ALONE

Find out the translation of let alone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of let alone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «let alone» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

更遑论
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

y mucho menos
570 millions of speakers

English

let alone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अकेले जाने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ناهيك عن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

не говоря уже о
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

muito menos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হস্তক্ষেপ না করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

et encore moins
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

bersendirian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

geschweige denn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ましてや
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

홀로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ayo bae
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hãy để một mình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தனியாக இருக்கட்டும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकटे राहू द्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bırak yalnız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

per non parlare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nie mówiąc już
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

не кажучи вже про
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

să nu mai vorbim
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόσο μάλλον
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

laat staan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tala
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enn si
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of let alone

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LET ALONE»

The term «let alone» is very widely used and occupies the 4.193 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LET ALONE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «let alone» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «let alone» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about let alone

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10 QUOTES WITH «LET ALONE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word let alone.
1
Josephine Baker
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.
2
Enid Blyton
I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
3
Avery Brooks
People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
4
Vint Cerf
To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many people would ask to be 'friends' - it quickly overwhelmed my time to process even the invitations and requests, let alone to actually go there and do anything.
5
Parvesh Cheena
I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
6
Gail Collins
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
7
Ricki-Lee Coulter
I'm so proud to be a real woman, a size 14 woman on the cover of a magazine like 'Ralph.' Women's publications rarely put size 14 women on the cover, let alone men's, so I'm really honoured and proud to be on the cover and representing curvy, sexy women out there.
8
Jefferson Davis
All we ask is to be let alone.
9
Charles Evers
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
10
Jonathan Frid
I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LET ALONE»

Discover the use of let alone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to let alone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Right to Privacy: Rights and Liberties Under the Law
In 1880, Thomas Cooley (1880, 29) defined privacy as “a right of complete immunity: to be let alone.” Two generations later, Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting in Olmstead v. United States (277 U.S. 438; 1928), declared that this right to be let ...
Richard A. Glenn, 2003
2
The right to be let alone: privacy in the United States
Explores today's technological assault on privacy and some of the ways citizens can be protected from it.
Gerald S. Snyder, 1975
3
How to Write
alone when regular regularly let alone when not nearly young when let alone when when let alone aimlessly let alone nearly young when aimlessly let alone nearly let alone when nearly young when nearly when regular regularly nearly ...
Gertrude Stein, 2012
4
Breaking the Abortion Deadlock : From Choice to Consent: ...
It was the fundamental right to be let alone from private parties that Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren used in their classic article that expanded the right of privacy from merely the right to be let alone from private intrusion of one's body and ...
Eileen McDonagh Associate Professor of Political Science Northeastern University, 1996
5
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
494.41 Worst 50 On the whole, you were let alone, 1 think! 498.37 Too Late 85 From fools that crowded youth, nor let thee feel alone 502.42 Ben Ezra 120 " Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, . . . 510.77 Death in D. 586 Alone ' mid ...
6
Cognitive Phonology in Construction Grammar: Analytic Tools ...
When a sentential construction includes specific lexical items, such as let alone ( Fillmore, Kay and O'Connor 1988), even, kind oflsort ofand at least (Kay 1997), it is partly schematic, partly filled. There are similar, partly schematic, partly filled ...
Riitta Välimaa-Blum, 2005
7
Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A ...
Use let alone. t * SFDBMM XIJMF JO HSBEF UIF teacher blushed so much while teaching us about the male and female reproductive organs that she did not even go through the chapter, leave alone the sex part. Use let alone. “Leave us ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
8
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES OF ...
OFFENDERS WISH TO BE LET ALONE. 381 confederates. Yet in the face of this testimony — in the presence of the prophecy of his so-called Secretary of War at Montgomery, and the action of Stephens, his lieutenant, while on his way to ...
BENSON J. LOSSING, 1866
9
Frederick Douglass: the Colored Orator
They suffer by every interference, and succeed best by being let alone. The negroes should have been let alone in Africa, let alone when the pirates and robbers offered them for sale in our Christian slave-markets, (more cruel and inhuman ...
Frederic May Holland, 1895
10
Frederick Douglass
They suffer by every interference, and succeed best by being let alone. The negroes should have been let alone in Africa, let alone when the pirates and robbers offered them for sale in our Christian slave-markets, (more cruel and inhuman ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LET ALONE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term let alone is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'I Wouldn't Let This Guy Buy a Car For Me': Chris Christie Slams …
"I wouldn't let this guy buy a car for me, let alone negotiate an arms deal with Iran," Christie said of Obama. While nuclear negotiations ... «VICE News, Jul 15»
2
The Open 2015: Dunne shares lead with Day and Oosthuizen …
They do not tend to compete, let alone prevail. As unlikely as a Dunne triumph may still be, there is no doubting the vast sway of neutral support ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
'She's the coach and we listen': Becky Hammon beats up the NBA …
Getting male basketball players to pay attention has long been a challenge for the best male coaches, let alone a female one in a league ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Ballance most vulnerable after England blown away - ESPN Cricinfo
The Aussie attack always looked dangerous and on current form very few English bats look capable of surviving, let alone playing a match ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
5
Liverpool fandom in Malaysia hits slight decline - ESPN FC
It remains to be seen whether Christian Benteke meets either, let alone both, criteria. There's something else in Malaysia that could affect the ... «ESPN FC, Jul 15»
6
The 'phallic' clam America sells to China - BBC News
Back in the US, surprisingly few Americans have ever heard of geoduck, let alone tasted this delicacy that inhabits their shores. You won't find many on dinner ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
7
Review: 'True Detective' Season 2 Episode 5 'Other Lives' | Indiewire
There's hardly enough there to sustain an episode within a regular television series made up of 13 or more episodes, let alone a miniseries like ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
8
Wright among friends | Boston Herald
“It's one of those things. I come from a small town, there's only a handful of us who have played professional baseball, let alone the big leagues, ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
9
Drum sensor helps you play digital beats on analog skins - Engadget
The effect is a bit surreal, as you'll hear in the video below -- you can produce beats that you'd rarely hear in the studio, let alone at a live ... «Engadget, Jul 15»
10
AGL Energy Offers 7.2kWh Battery Storage For Less Than $10,000
... systems at under less than $10,000 each – in what appears to be a massive discount over prevailing wholesale prices, let alone retail prices. «CleanTechnica, Jul 15»

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