solitaire.html - n.
1 a diamond or other gem set by itself.
2 a ring having a single gem.
3 a game for one player played by removing pegs etc. one at a time from a board by jumping others over them until only one is left.
4 US = PATIENCE 4.
5 any of various extinct dodo-like flightless birds of the family Raphidae.
6 any American thrush of the genus Myadestes. [F f. L solitarius (as SOLITARY)]

solitaire.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 living alone; not gregarious; without companions; lonely (a solitary existence).
2 (of a place) secluded or unfrequented.
3 single or sole (a solitary instance).
4 (of an insect) not living in communities.
5 Bot. growing singly, not in a cluster.

--n.

(pl. -ies)
1 a recluse or anchorite.
2 colloq. = solitary confinement.

solitary confinement isolation of a prisoner in a separate cell as a punishment.

solitarily adv. solitariness n. [ME f. L solitarius f. solus alone]

solitaire.html - n.
1 a diamond or other gem set by itself.
2 a ring having a single gem.
3 a game for one player played by removing pegs etc. one at a time from a board by jumping others over them until only one is left.
4 US = PATIENCE 4.
5 any of various extinct dodo-like flightless birds of the family Raphidae.
6 any American thrush of the genus Myadestes. [F f. L solitarius (as SOLITARY)]

solitaire.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 living alone; not gregarious; without companions; lonely (a solitary existence).
2 (of a place) secluded or unfrequented.
3 single or sole (a solitary instance).
4 (of an insect) not living in communities.
5 Bot. growing singly, not in a cluster.

--n.

(pl. -ies)
1 a recluse or anchorite.
2 colloq. = solitary confinement.

solitary confinement isolation of a prisoner in a separate cell as a punishment.

solitarily adv. solitariness n. [ME f. L solitarius f. solus alone]

solitaire.html - n.
1 the state of being solitary.
2 a lonely place. [ME f. OF solitude or L solitudo f. solus alone]

solitaire.html - pl. of SOLO.