solitude

English

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Etymology

From Old French solitude

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Noun

Wikipedia solitude (countable and uncountable; plural solitudes)

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

Synonyms

• aloneness

Antonyms

• intimacy

Derived terms

• two solitudes

Related terms

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

Translations

state of being alone

• Arabic: عزلة (ʕuzlah)
• Azerbaijani: yalqızlıq, təklik
• Bashkir: яңғыҙлыҡ (yañğıźlıq)
• Catalan: solitud f
• Chinese: 孤寂; 孤獨, 孤独 (gūdú); 孑然 (jiérán)
• Czech: samota (cs) f
• Danish: ensomhed (da) c
• Dutch: eenzaamheid f
• Esperanto: soleco
• Estonian: üksindus
• Finnish: yksinäisyys (fi)
• French: solitude (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Einsamkeit (de) f
• Greek: μοναξιά f (monaxiá)
• Hebrew: בדידות f (bedidut)
• Hungarian: magány (hu)
• Icelandic: einsemd (is) f
• Indonesian: kesepian (id)
• Italian: solitudine (it) f
• Japanese: 孤独 (こどく, kodoku)
• Kazakh: жалғыздық (jalğızdıq), жалқылық (jalqılıq)

• Korean: 고독 (godok)
• Kyrgyz: жалгыздык (calğızdıq)
• Latin: solitudo (la) f
• Latvian: vienatne f, vienatnība f
• Lithuanian: vienatvė f
• Norwegian: ensomhet (no) c
• Polish: samotność (pl) f
• Portuguese: solidão (pt) f
• Romanian: singurătate (ro) f
• Russian: одиночество n (odinočestvo), уединение n (uedinenie)
• Serbo-Croatian: osama (sh)
• Slovak: samota (sk) f
• Slovene: samota (sl) f
• Spanish: soledad (es) f, solitud (es) f
• Swedish: ensamhet (sv) c
• Tatar: yalğızlıq
• Telugu: ఏకాంతము (te)
• Tibetan: དབེན་པ (bo) (dben. pa)
• Turkish: yalnızlık (tr)
• Turkmen: ýalnyzlyk
• Uzbek: yolg‘izlik
• Yakut: соҕотохсуйуу (soğotoxsuyuu)

See also

• loneliness

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /sɔ.li.tyd/, X-SAMPA: /sO.li.tyd/

Etymology

From Latin solitudo, corresponding to solus (“alone”) + -tudo.

Noun

solitude f (plural solitudes)

1. solitude

Related terms

• solitaire
• seul

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Old French

Noun

solitude f (nominative singular solitude)

1. solitude

Descendants

• English: solitude (borrowed)
• French: solitude