Solitaire

Quick meaning: Solitaire is a noun meaning A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.

Meaning

A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.

More Meanings

1. (card games, chiefly US and Canada) Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
2. Ellipsis of Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct bird related to the dodo.
3. Ellipsis of Réunion solitaire (Raphus solitarius, now Threskiornis solitarius), an extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo.
4. One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.
5. (jewelry) A single gem, usually a diamond, mounted in a piece of jewellery by itself.
6. (board games) A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
7. (obsolete) A black neck ribbon worn with a bag wig in the 18th century.

Example Sentences

The fellow wears a ſolitaire, uſes paint, and takes rappee with all the grimace of a French marquis.

The early French solitaire boards were marked with thirty-seven holes instead of the modern board's thirty-three; and the problems were more difficult.

The Times reported ‘two pendant earrings formed of diamond solitaires of great splendor, supporting pear-shaped pearls of proportionate value, capped with brilliants.[…]’

Mr. Greenwood said yesterday that he always finished his work in a timely fashion, and that he played solitaire only when there was nothing else left to do, usually a few times a week or during lunch breaks.

Word Forms

• solitaires

Synonyms for solitaire

Depending on context, synonyms include hermit, patience.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include patience, solitary, hermit, loner, lone, alone.

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