on one's own

Synonyms

alone solo independently singly single-handed severally unassisted solitarily one by one one at a time solus unattended single-handedly unaccompanied companionless
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Antonyms

together altogether collectively mutually jointly concurrently
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Examples

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. G. K. Chesterton

One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one's own doorstep was a shock. Alexander McCall Smith

What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and, by cautious experimentation, to prove how it works? What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land? Aldo Leopold

One does not spy on one's own people,” ZeSpiole informed him. "One has, rather, conduits of communication which lead to the common man. Iain Banks

It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one. Celia Green

One is one's own master on one's own stove. Russian Proverb

Words in the phrase

on one s own

Close letter words and terms

on one's last leg on one's last legs on one's lonesome on one's own hook on one's own initiative on one's pat