FromMiddle Englishsolitude, fromOld Frenchsolitude. Bysurface analysis,sole +-itude.
solitude (countable anduncountable,pluralsolitudes)
- Aloneness; the state of beingalone,solitary, or byoneself.
- Synonyms:aloneness,seclusion;see alsoThesaurus:solitude
- Antonym:intimacy
- Alonely ordeserted place.
- Synonyms:back of beyond,(vulgar)bumfuck,corner,hermitage,hermitry,hidey-hole,seclusion
1813,Lord Byron,Bride of Abydos, Canto 2, stanza 20:Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes asolitude, and calls it — peace.
1874,Georg August Schweinfurth, chapter I, in Ellen E. Frewer, transl.,The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa, from 1868 to 1871[1], second edition, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, And Searle, translation ofIm Herzen von Afrika, Botanical Ardour:[S]uch an one[…] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distantsolitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness.
state of being alone
- Arabic:عُزْلَة(ʕuzla)
- Armenian:please add this translation if you can
- Aromanian:singurami f,singurãtati f,singureatsã f
- Azerbaijani:yalqızlıq (az),təklik
- Bashkir:яңғыҙлыҡ(yañğıźlıq)
- Bulgarian:Самота(Samota)
- Burmese:please add this translation if you can
- Catalan:solitud (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:孤寂 (zh)(gūjì),孤獨 /孤独 (zh)(gūdú),孑然 (zh)(jiérán)
- Czech:samota (cs) f
- Danish:ensomhed c
- Dutch:eenzaamheid (nl) f
- Esperanto:soleco
- Estonian:üksindus (et)
- Faroese:einsemi f orn
- Finnish:yksinäisyys (fi)
- French:solitude (fr) f
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:Einsamkeit (de) f,Alleinsein (de) n
- Greek:μοναξιά (el) f(monaxiá)
- Ancient:ἐρημία f(erēmía)
- Hebrew:בדידות (he) f (bedidut)
- Hungarian:magány (hu)
- Icelandic:einsemd (is) f
- Indonesian:kesepian (id)
- Irish:aonarachas m,aonaracht f
- Italian:solitudine (it) f
- Japanese:孤独 (ja)(こどく, kodoku)
- Kazakh:жалғыздық(jalğyzdyq),жалқылық(jalqylyq)
- Khmer:វិវេកភាព(viveikphiəp),ភាពឯកោ(phéapʼékaô)
- Korean:고독 (ko)(godok)
- Kyrgyz:жалгыздык (ky)(jalgızdık)
- Lao:please add this translation if you can
- Latin:solitudo f,solitās f
- Latvian:vienatne f,vienatnība f
- Lithuanian:vienatvė f
- Malay:please add this translation if you can
- Malayalam:ഏകാന്തത (ml)(ēkāntata)
- Norwegian:ensomhet (no) c
- Old English:ānād n
- Ottoman Turkish:یالڭزلك(yalñızlık)
- Polish:samotność (pl) f
- Portuguese:solidão (pt) f,solitude (pt) f
- Romanian:singurătate (ro) f,solitudine (ro) f
- Russian:одиночество (ru) n(odinočestvo),уединение (ru) n(ujedinenije)
- Sanskrit:रहस् (sa) n(rahas)
- Serbo-Croatian:osama (sh)
- Slovak:samota f
- Slovene:samota (sl) f
- Spanish:soledad (es) f,solitud f
- Swedish:ensamhet (sv) c
- Tatar:yalğızlıq
- Telugu:ఏకాంతము (te)(ēkāntamu)
- Thai:ความโดดเดี่ยว
- Tibetan:དབེན་པ(dben pa)
- Turkish:yalnızlık (tr)
- Turkmen:ýalnyzlyk
- Ukrainian:самотність f(samotnistʹ)
- Uzbek:yolg‘izlik (uz)
- Vietnamese:sựcô độc
- Welsh:unigedd m
- Yakut:соҕотохсуйуу(soğotoqsuyuu)
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FromOld Frenchsolitude (13th c.), a borrowing fromLatinsōlitūdō.
solitude f (pluralsolitudes)
- solitude
- loneliness
1969, “Ma solitude”, in Georges Moustaki (lyrics),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 masolitude- She followed me hither and yon / To the four corners of the world / No, I am never alone / With mysolitude
solitudeoblique singular, f (nominative singularsolitude)
- solitude
Learned borrowing fromLatinsōlitūdō, corresponding tosōlus(“alone”) +-tūdō.
solitude f (pluralsolitudes)
- solitude
- Synonym:solidão
