/
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).