solitude

English

Etymology

From Old French solitude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɒlɪˌtjuːd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlɪˌtud/
• Hyphenation: sol‧i‧tude

• Audio (US):

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Noun

solitude (countable and uncountable, plural solitudes)

1. Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.

   Synonym: aloneness

   Antonym: intimacy

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.

Derived terms

• two solitudes

Related terms

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

Translations

state of being alone

• Arabic: عُزْلَة (ʕuzla)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Aromanian: singurami f, singurãtati f, singureatsã f
• Azerbaijani: yalqızlıq (az), təklik
• Bashkir: яңғыҙлыҡ (yañğıźlıq)
• Catalan: solitud f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孤寂 (zh) (gūjì), 孤獨／孤独 (zh) (gūdú), 孤独 (zh) (gūdú), 孑然 (zh) (jiérán)

• Czech: samota (cs) f
• Danish: ensomhed c
• Dutch: eenzaamheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: soleco
• Estonian: üksindus
• Faroese: einsemi f or n
• Finnish: yksinäisyys (fi)
• French: solitude (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Einsamkeit (de) f, Alleinsein n
• Greek: μοναξιά (el) f (monaxiá)

  Ancient: ἐρημία f (erēmía)

• Hebrew: בדידות (he) f (bedidut)
• Hungarian: magány (hu)
• Icelandic: einsemd (is) f
• Indonesian: kesepian (id)
• Irish: aonarachas m, aonaracht f
• Italian: solitudine (it) f
• Japanese: 孤独 (ja) (こどく, kodoku)
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• Kazakh: жалғыздық (jalğyzdyq), жалқылық (jalqylyq)
• Korean: 고독 (ko) (godok)
• Kyrgyz: жалгыздык (ky) (jalgızdık)
• Latin: solitudo f, solitās f
• Latvian: vienatne f, vienatnība f
• Lithuanian: vienatvė f
• Norwegian: ensomhet (no) c
• Old English: ānād n
• Polish: samotność (pl) f
• Portuguese: solidão (pt) f
• Romanian: singurătate (ro) f, solitudine (ro) f
• Russian: одиночество (ru) n (odinočestvo), уединение (ru) n (ujedinenije)
• Serbo-Croatian: osama (sh)
• Slovak: samota f
• Slovene: samota (sl) f
• Spanish: soledad (es) f, solitud f
• Swedish: ensamhet (sv) c
• Tatar: yalğızlıq
• Telugu: ఏకాంతము (te) (ēkāntamu)
• Tibetan: དབེན་པ (dben pa)
• Turkish: yalnızlık (tr)
• Turkmen: ýalnyzlyk
• Uzbek: yolg‘izlik (uz)
• Welsh: unigedd m
• Yakut: соҕотохсуйуу (soğotoqsuyuu)

See also

• loneliness

Further reading

• solitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• outslide, slideout, toluides

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French

Etymology

From Latin sōlitūdō, corresponding to sōlus (“alone”) + -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.li.tyd/

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Noun

solitude f (plural solitudes)

1. solitude
   • 1969, “Ma solitude”, in Georges Moustaki (lyrics), Le Métèque, performed by Georges Moustaki:

     Elle m’a suivi çà et là / Aux quatre coins du monde / Non, je ne suis jamais seul / Avec ma solitude

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• solitaire
• seul

Further reading

• “solitude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Noun

solitude oblique singular, f (nominative singular solitude)

1. solitude

Descendants

• → English: solitude
• French: solitude