solitude

From Middle English solitude, from Old French solitude; synchronically, sole +‎ -itude.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒlɪˌtjuːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlɪˌtud/
• Hyphenation: sol‧i‧tude

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solitude (countable and uncountable, plural solitudes)

1. Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
   • 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:

     Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
     The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
     Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
     Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

   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.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible.

• two solitudes

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

• loneliness

• solitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• outslide, slideout, toluides

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlitūdō.

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.li.tyd/

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solitude f (plural solitudes)

1. solitude
   • 1969, Georges Moustaki (lyrics), “Ma solitude”, in 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

     She followed me hither and yon / To the four corners of the world / No, I am never alone / With my solitude

• solitaire
• seul

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

solitude f (nominative singular solitude)

1. solitude

• → English: solitude
• French: solitude

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlitūdō, corresponding to sōlus (“alone”) + -tūdō.

• Hyphenation: so‧li‧tu‧de

solitude f (plural solitudes)

1. solitude

   Synonym: solidão

• só
• solidão
• solitário