solitude
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From Old French solitude
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Wikipedia solitude (countable and uncountable; plural solitudes)
- Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
- 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.
- Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
- 1813, Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto 2, stanza 20:
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state of being alone
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From Latin solitudo, corresponding to solus (“alone”) + -tudo.
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solitude f (plural solitudes)
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solitude f (nominative singular solitude)
