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Definition: Solitaire |
SolitaireNoun1. A gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself. 2. Extinct flightless bird related to the dodo. 3. Dull gray North American thrushes noted for its beautiful song. 4. A card game played by one person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "solitaire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Etymology: Solitaire \Sol`i*taire"\, noun. [French expression See Solitary.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Food & Agriculture | A cosmopolitan order of land birds including the sandgrouse, pigeons and doves with their extinct relatives, the dodo and the solitaire. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Solitaire refers to a family of single-player card games of a generally similar character, but varying greatly in detail. (The term "Patience" is more commonly used in British English; while Solitaire means peg solitaire.)
These games typically involve dealing cards from a shuffled deck into a prescribed arrangement on a tabletop, from which the player attempts to reorder the deck by suit and rank through a series of moves transferring cards from one place to another under prescribed restrictions.
Solitaire has its own terminology; see solitaire terminology.
There are many different solitaire games, but the term "Solitaire" is often used to refer specifically to the most well-known form of the game, properly called "Klondike". Klondike and some other solitaire games have been adapted into two-player competitive games.
There are a vast array of variations on the solitaire/patience theme, using either one or two decks of cards, and with rules of varying complexity and skill levels. Many of these games have been converted to electronic form and are available as computer games. A basic form of Klondike solitaire comes with every installation of Microsoft Windows, for example. A two-deck electronic example is Arachnid Solitaire.
The term 'solitaire' is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout of tiles, pegs or stones rather than cards. These games include:
A solitaire is a extinct bird of the Raphidae family .
A solitaire is one of a group of New World birds related to the thrusheses.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Solitaire."
Synonym: SolitaireSynonym: patience (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Chess, draughts, checkers, checquers, backgammon, dominos, merelles, nine men's morris, go bang, solitaire; game of fox and goose; monopoly; loto; |
Seclusion Exclusion | Recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret, anchorite; Simon Stylites; troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic; wastrel, foundling, wilding. |
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Crosswords: Solitaire |
| English words defined with "solitaire": canfield, crapette ♦ genus Pezophaps ♦ Pezophaps ♦ Russian bank. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "solitaire": columbiformes pigeons ♦ dodos, doves. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Solitaire" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (desolate, hermit, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, private, recluse, reclusive, secluded, solitaire, solitary). |
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Lyrics | Play solitaire and stare at the phone (When Somebody Loves You; performing artist: Alan Jackson) Si solitaire (Someone I love, Someone who loves me; performing artist: Dion) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Double Solitaire (1974) La Louve solitaire (1968) Le Solitaire passe l'attaque (1966) The Solitaire Man (1933) Bout-de-Zan le ver solitaire (1914) | |
Song Titles | Solitaire (performing artist: Laura Branigan) Solitaire (performing artist: The Embers) | |
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 | Le ver solitaire Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Just solitaire. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The most popular diamond rings are of the embedded stud type, though solitaire engagement rings with a high quality diamond set in gold show strong potential for growth. (references) | |
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| "Solitaire" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Solitaire" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Solitaire Group Plc |
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Expression using "solitaire": solitaire diamond. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
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solitaire card game | 425 | free solitaire downloads | 85 |
klondike solitaire | 380 | diamond solitaire ring | 81 |
free spider solitaire | 374 | free jong mah solitaire | 76 |
free cell solitaire | 338 | hardwood solitaire | 76 |
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123 free solitaire | 261 | free online solitaire | 70 |
pretty good solitaire | 240 | classic solitaire | 63 |
123 solitaire | 230 | solitaire ring | 62 |
golf solitaire | 202 | solitaire diamond | 62 |
play solitaire | 193 | play spider solitaire | 58 |
free solitaire download | 177 | double solitaire | 57 |
first class solitaire | 175 | yukon solitaire | 54 |
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| Language | Translations for "solitaire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pasjans (patience), diamant i madh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | украшение с един брилянт, вид игра с топчета, пасианс (patience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | duefugle (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, sandgrouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | klarinetvogel, duiven (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, pigeons, pigeons and doves, sandgrouse), duifachtigen (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, sandgrouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | منفرد (Single), نگین تکی , تک بازی , تک (Attack, Azygos, Individual, Lone, Odd, One, Particular, Segregate, Single, Singular, Solo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | solitaire (solitary), colobiformes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Solitär (solitaire diamond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μονόπετρο κόσμημα, μονοδετόσ, περιστεροειδή (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, sandgrouse), πασιέντζα, αδαμάντασ (adamant, brilliant, diamond, diamonda, sparkler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פסי ס. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pasziánsz, egyedül játszható játék, egyedül befoglalt drágakő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solitario (alone, lone, lone wolf, lonely, loner, patience, private, sequestered, single handed, solitary, solo), columbiformi (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, sandgrouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cliejeen ny lomarcan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olitairesay solitário (alone, cloistered, desolate, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, recluse, secluded, sole, solitary, unfrequented, wild), rouxinol-domato, pedra preciosa (gem, jewel, precious stone, sard, stone), melro-das-rochas, jogo de paciência, columbiformes (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, sandgrouse), anacoreta (anchoret, anchorite, hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte). (various references) солитер (solitaire gem, solitaires, tapeworm), пасьянс (patience). (various references) samica (solitary confinement), vrsta ptice (bobolink, cassowary, dunlin, ringtail, sandpiper, skua), usamljenik (solitary, solus), pasijans (patience). (various references) solitario (alone, desolate, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, obscure, patience, recluse, seclusive, solitary). (various references) solitär, patiens (patience). (various references) yüzükte tek taş, tek taş, tek kişilik kâğıt oyunu, tek kişilik dama. (various references) солітер (tapeworm), самітник (anchoret, anchorite, eremite, recluse, troglodyte), пасьянс. (various references) người ẩn dật. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Columbiformes, Myadestes. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "solitaire": solitaires. (additional references) | |
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"Solitaire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: solataire, solitairy, solitare, solitarie, Solitorium, soliture, solotaire. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "solitaire" (pronounced sÄ'lute"r) |
| 3 | -t e" r | stair, stare, tear. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oralities. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: roiliest. | |
-2 letters: airiest, estriol, iolites, isolate, laities, loiters, oiliest, oralist, realist, retails, rialtos, saltier, saltire, siltier, slatier, tailers, tailors, toilers. | |
-3 letters: aiolis, airest, alerts, alters, aorist, ariels, ariose, ariosi, aristo, artels, estral, iolite, laster, liaise, lister, liters, litres, loiter, lories, oaters, oilers, oilier, orates, oriels, osteal, ostler, ratels, ratios, relist, reoils, resail, retail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: editorials, idolatries, molarities, moralities, polarities, solitaires, solitaries. | |
+2 letters: amoralities, disrelation, eliminators, formalities, immortalise, insertional, liberations, literations, memorialist, mortalities, normalities, orientalism, orientalist, peristomial, rationalise, regionalist. | |
+3 letters: bibliolaters, biomaterials, bipolarities, borosilicate, cordialities, depilatories, dilatoriness, disrelations, editorialist, elutriations, epistolaries, exorcistical, felicitators, frontalities, heliolatries, iconolatries, immoralities, immortalised, immortalises, immortalizes, jocularities, lectionaries, legitimators, meliorations, memorialists, mineralogist, modularities, neorealistic, nonrealistic, orientalisms, orientalists, orientalizes, osmolarities, popularities, postimperial, prelibations, rationalised, rationalises, rationalizes, realizations, realpolitiks, regionalists, reinflations, relationship, replications, retaliations, semitropical, solidarities, solitariness, subeditorial, territorials, tropicalizes, unmoralities, urolithiases. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6C 69 74 61 69 72 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101001 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o l i t a i r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006C 0069 0074 0061 0069 0072 0065 |
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