[ 'sɒlɪtɛ: , ˌsɒlɪ'tɛ: ]
■ noun
1》 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.
2》 N. Amer. the card game patience.
3》 a single diamond or other gem in a piece of jewellery.
↘a ring with a single gem.
4》 an extinct flightless bird related to the dodo, formerly inhabiting two Indian Ocean islands. [ Pezophaps solitaria and Ornithaptera solitaria .]
5》 a mainly grey American songbird of the thrush family. [Genus Myadestes : several species.]
Origin
C18: from Fr., from L. solitarius (see solitary ).