Usually means: Alone, without companions; isolated, secluded.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word solitary:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. solitary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. solitary: Merriam-Webster
  3. solitary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. solitary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. solitary: Collins English Dictionary
  6. solitary: Vocabulary.com
  7. Solitary, solitary: Wordnik
  8. solitary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. solitary: Wiktionary
  10. solitary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. solitary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. solitary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. solitary: Dictionary.com
  14. solitary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. solitary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Solitary (Lost), Solitary (TV series), Solitary (album), Solitary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Solitary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. solitary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. solitary: Rhymezone
  20. solitary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. solitary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. solitary: FreeDictionary.org
  23. solitary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. solitary: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solitary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solitary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. solitary: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. solitary: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. solitary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. solitary: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See solitaries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being solitary; solitude
adjective:  Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
adjective:  Performed, passed, or endured alone
adjective:  Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
adjective:  Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
adjective:  Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
adjective:  Single; individual; sole.
adjective:  (botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
noun:  (uncountable) Ellipsis of solitary confinement. [Forced isolation in a small space and the denial of contact with other persons, usually as a form of punishment for a prison inmate.]
noun:  Archaic form of solitaire (“Rodrigues solitaire”). [A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.]

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