/
ˈsɒlɪtɛː,
ˌsɒlɪˈtɛː/
n.
- Brit. a game for one player played by removing pegs from a board one at a time by jumping others over them from adjacent holes, the object being to be left with only one peg.
- N. Amer. the card game patience.
- a single diamond or other gem in a piece of jewellery.
▸a ring with a single gem.
- an extinct flightless bird related to the dodo, formerly inhabiting two Indian Ocean islands.
[Pezophaps solitaria and Ornithaptera solitaria.]
- a mainly grey American songbird of the thrush family.
[Genus Myadestes: several species.]
Etymology
C18: from Fr., from L. solitarius (see solitary).