solitude

English

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Etymology

From Old French solitude

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Noun

Wikipedia solitude (countable and uncountable; plural solitudes)

1. Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
2. A lonely or deserted place.
   • 1813, Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto 2, stanza 20:

     Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
     He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.

Synonyms

• aloneness

Derived terms

• two solitudes

Related terms

• sole
• solo
• soliloquy
• solitary
• solitudinous
• solitudinously

Translations

state of being alone

Arabic: عزلة (ʕuzlah) Azerbaijani: yalqızlıq, təklik Bashkir: яңғыҙлыҡ (yañğıźlıq) Catalan: solitud f. Chinese: 孤寂; 孤獨, 孤独 (gūdú); 孑然 (jiérán) Czech: samota (cs) f. Danish: ensomhed (da) c. Dutch: eenzaamheid f. Esperanto: soleco Estonian: üksindus Finnish: yksinäisyys (fi) French: solitude (fr) f. German: Einsamkeit (de) f. Greek: μοναξιά f. (monaxiá) Hebrew: בדידות f. (bedidut) Hungarian: magány (hu) Icelandic: einsemd (is) f. Indonesian: kesepian (id) Italian: solitudine (it) f. Japanese: 孤独 (こどく, kodoku) Kazakh: жалғыздық (jalğızdıq), жалқылық (jalqılıq)

Korean: 고독 (godok) Kyrgyz: жалгыздык (calğızdıq) Latin: solitudo (la) f. Latvian: vienatne f., vienatnība f. Lithuanian: vienatvė f. Norwegian: ensomhet (no) c. Polish: samotność (pl) f. Portuguese: solidão (pt) f. Romanian: singurătate (ro) f. Russian: одиночество n. (odinočestvo), уединение n. (uedinenie) Slovak: samota (sk) f. Slovene: samota (sl) f. Spanish: soledad (es) f., solitud (es) f. Swedish: ensamhet (sv) c. Tatar: yalğızlıq Tibetan: དབེན་པ (dben. pa) Turkish: yalnızlık (tr) Turkmen: ýalnyzlyk Uzbek: yolg‘izlik Yakut: соҕотохсуйуу (soğotoxsuyuu)

See also

• loneliness

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /sɔ.li.tyd/, SAMPA: /sO.li.tyd/

Etymology

From Latin solitudo, corresponding to solus (“alone”) + -tudo.

Noun

solitude f. (plural solitudes)

1. solitude

Related terms

• solitaire
• seul