Solitude
['sɒlɪtjuːd] or ['sɑlətud]
Definition
(noun.) a solitary place.
(noun.) the state or situation of being alone.
(noun.) a state of social isolation.
Editor: Pedro--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
(a.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
(a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
Checker: Merle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Loneliness, isolation, seclusion, solitariness, lonely state, seclusiveness, lonely life, estrangement from the world.[2]. Desert, wilderness, waste, lonely place, deserted region.
Edited by Antony
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Loneliness, remoteness, seclusion, retirement, isolation, wildness, desertion,barrenness, wilderness, privacy
ANT:Publicity, populousness, society, frequentedness, intercourse, resort, meeting,reunion, throng, crowd
Checker: Paulette
Definition
n. a being alone: a lonely life: want of company: a lonely place or desert.
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Examples
- Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Collins, meanwhile, was meditating in solitude on what had passed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I dared summon solitude to guard us. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Reliant on Night, confiding in Solitude, I kept my tears sealed, my sobs chained, no longer; they heaved my heart; they tore their way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- One would think the night would be long enough, in this freezing silence and solitude, if one went to bed two hours hence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One--twice--thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming solitude of that unspeakably quick, yet unthinkably dead, world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is in the midst of a great solitude. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He would have preferred sitting alone; for he liked a silent, sombre, unsafe solitude. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Silence and solitude brood over Tahoe; and silence and solitude brood also over this lake of Genessaret. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A multitude of people, and yet a solitude! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The Fellows recognized that the mental powers a re raised to a higher degree in company than in solitude. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She left solitude and silence co-heirs of her kingdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At these moments I took refuge in the most perfect solitude. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If those awful solitudes had spoken to my heart, I did not know it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Its productions and features may be without example, as the ph?nomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The walks were, one and all, solitudes; and the birds and the bees were the only witnesses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was a wilder picture than those solitudes had seen for many a day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In old times the woods and solitudes were made joyous to the shepherd by the imaginary piping and dancing of Pan and the nymphs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The cup of the valley lay in shadow; but amid these lofty solitudes all was luminous light and brilliant sunshine. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How can we be for ever together--sometimes in solitudes, sometimes amidst savage tribes--and unwed? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Edited by Jacqueline